Ceratopyge Fm., Scania, Sweden ( of Sweden)

Where: Sweden (56.0° N, 14.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.7° S, 16.7° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Ceratopyge Formation, Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)

• Upper Tremadoc

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, glauconitic, phosphatic, pyritic shale and limestone

• Dark pyritic, phosphatic, and glauconitic shale interbedded with dark to grey limestone

Primary reference: T. E. Tjernvik. 1958. The Tremadocian beds at Flagboro in south-eastern Scania (Sweden). Geologiska Foereningens i Stockholm Foerdhandlingar 80:259-276 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3110: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 25.07.1999

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Protopliomeroides sp.
Lingulata
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
Acrotreta sp.
Acrotreta sp. Kutorga 1848
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Lingulella sp.
Lingulella sp. Salter 1866
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Nanorthis sp.
Nanorthis sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
Trilobita
 Harpetida - Harpididae
Harpides sp.
Harpides sp. Beyrich 1846 trilobite
 Olenida - Eulomidae
Euloma sp.
Euloma sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Apatokephalus sp.
Apatokephalus sp. Brögger 1896 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Niobe sp.
Niobe sp. Angelin 1851 trilobite
 Asaphida - Ceratopygidae
Ceratopyge sp.
Ceratopyge sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Asaphida - Nileidae
Symphysurus sp.
Symphysurus sp. Goldfuss 1843 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae
Shumardia sp.
Shumardia sp. Billings 1862 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Alsataspididae
Orometopus sp.
Orometopus sp. Broegger 1898 trilobite
Malacostraca
 Archaeostraca - Ceratiocarididae
? Ceratiocaris sp.
? Ceratiocaris sp. M'Coy 1849
Conodonta
 Proconodontida - Cordylodontidae
Cordylodus sp.
Cordylodus sp. Pander 1856 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Oistodontidae
Oistodus sp.
Oistodus sp. Pander 1856 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Protopanderodontidae
Drepanodus sp.
Drepanodus sp. Pander 1856 conodont
 Life -
Leiosphaeridia sp.
Leiosphaeridia sp. Eisenack 1958