Furudal Limestone Assemblage, Ostergotland, Sweden (Ordovician of Sweden)

Where: Sweden (58.0° N, 15.0° E: paleocoordinates 36.4° S, 8.5° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Furudal Formation, Early/Lower Llandeilo (466.0 - 460.9 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, gray, green lime mudstone and shale

• Finely nodular, grey and greenish-grey lime mudstone and mudstone

Primary reference: V. Jaanusson. 1962. The Lower and Middle Viruan sequence in two borings in Ostergotland, central Sweden. Bulletin of Geological Institutions of the University of Uppsala 38(9):1-30 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2938: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 22.07.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Christianiidae
Christiania sp.
Christiania sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Tvaerenellidae
Euprimites sp., Uhakiella sp.
Euprimites sp. Hessland 1949 ostracod
Uhakiella sp. Öpik 1937 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Tetradellidae
Sigmobolbina sp., Piretella sp., Tallinnella sp.
Sigmobolbina sp. Henningsmoen 1953 ostracod
Piretella sp. ostracod
originally entered as "Piretiella sp."
Tallinnella sp. Opik 1937 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Eurychilinidae
Chilobolbina sp., Laccochilina sp.
Chilobolbina sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1923 ostracod
Laccochilina sp. Hessland 1949 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Ctenonotellidae
Steusloffia sp.
Steusloffia sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1908 ostracod
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Sphaerocoryphe sp.
Sphaerocoryphe sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Remopleurides sp.
Remopleurides sp. Portlock 1843 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
? Pseudobasilicus sp., Plectasaphus sp.
? Pseudobasilicus sp. Reed 1930 trilobite
originally entered as "Pseudobasilicus? sp."
Plectasaphus sp. Jaanusson 1953 trilobite
 Asaphida - Nileidae
Nileus sp.
Nileus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus sp.
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Trinodus sp.
Trinodus sp. M'Coy 1846