Frognerkilen Formation assemblage, Oslo and Ringerike, Norway (Ordovician to of Norway)

Where: Norway (60.0° N, 11.0° E: paleocoordinates 31.6° S, 9.4° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Frognerkilen Formation, Soudleyan to Soudleyan (458.4 - 454.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified limestone and shale

• Rubbly limestones, passing upwards to rubbly limestone and shale

Primary reference: A. I. Miller. 1993. Unpublished notes on Norwegian Ordovician fossil occurrences compiled from various resources, primarily from the series of papers on taxa of the Middle Ordovician on the Oslo-Asker District, published in Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift. [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/M. Uhen]more details

PaleoDB collection 2947: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 22.07.1999

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Taxonomic list

• Compiled from several published references; not listed in Arnold I. Miller's notebooks
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Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Asaphus sp.
Asaphus sp. Brongniart 1822 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Remopleurides sp.
Remopleurides sp. Portlock 1843 trilobite
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Atractopyge sp.
Atractopyge sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Protorthida - Skenidiidae
Skenidioides sp.
Skenidioides sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
 Pentamerida - Porambonitidae
Porambonites sp.
Porambonites sp. Pander 1830
 Orthida - Rhactorthidae
Rhactorthis sp.
Rhactorthis sp. Williams 1963
 Orthida - Cremnorthidae
Cremnorthis sp.
Cremnorthis sp. Williams 1963
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
Platystrophia sp.
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Dolerorthis sp.
Dolerorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Glyptorthis sp.
Glyptorthis sp. Foerste 1914
 Orthida - Productorthidae
Nicolella sp.
Nicolella sp. Reed 1917
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Onniella sp., Dalmanella sp.
Onniella sp. Bancroft 1928
Dalmanella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Eoplectodonta sp., Sowerbyella sp.
Eoplectodonta sp. Kozlowski 1929
Sowerbyella sp. Jones 1928
 Strophomenida - Leptestiidae
Leptestiina sp.
Leptestiina sp. Opik 1933
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Strophomena sp., Gunnarella sp.
Strophomena sp. Rafinesque and De Blainville 1824
Gunnarella sp. Spjeldnaes 1957
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Hedstroemina sp., Kjerulfina sp., Leptaena sp., Kiaeromena sp.
Hedstroemina sp. Bancroft 1929
Kjerulfina sp. Bancroft 1929
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828
Kiaeromena sp. Spjeldnaes 1957
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Oxoplecia sp., Triplesia sp.
Oxoplecia sp. Wilson 1913
Triplesia sp. Hall 1859
Bivalvia
 Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
Ctenodonta sp.
Ctenodonta sp. Salter 1852 clam
 Cyrtodontida - Cyrtodontidae
Cyrtodontula sp.
Cyrtodontula sp. Tomlin 1931 clam
Cephalopoda
 Discosorida - Westonoceratidae
Broeggeroceras sp.
Broeggeroceras sp. Sweet 1958
 Ascocerida - Probillingsitidae
Probillingsites sp.
Probillingsites sp. Foerste 1928
 Tarphycerida - Trocholitidae
Discoceras sp.
Discoceras sp. Barrande 1867
 Actinocerida - Gonioceratidae
Hoeloceras sp.
Hoeloceras sp. Sweet 1958
 Dissidocerida - Geisonoceratidae
? Protokionoceras sp.
? Protokionoceras sp. Grabau and Shimer 1910
originally entered as "Protokionoceras? sp."
 Orthocerida - Kionoceratidae
? Polygrammoceras sp.
? Polygrammoceras sp. Foerste 1927
originally entered as "Ploygrammoceras? sp."
 Lituitida - Sinoceratidae
? Rhynchorthoceras sp., ? Tyrioceras sp.
? Rhynchorthoceras sp. Remelé 1882
originally entered as "Rhynchorthoceras? sp."
? Tyrioceras sp. Strand 1933
originally entered as "Tyrioceras? sp."
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Sinuitidae
Sinuites sp.
Sinuites sp. Koken 1896 snail
 Euomphalina - Lesueurillidae
Pararaphistoma sp.
Pararaphistoma sp. Vostokova 1955 snail