Leangella-Dicoelosia association (Silurian of Norway)

Where: Norway (59.9° N, 10.8° E: paleocoordinates 25.7° S, 8.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Leangen Member (Solvik Formation), Aeronian (440.8 - 438.5 Ma)

• "lower Lland"

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

• "sh and mudstone. open shelf env. BA5. (Clorinda-Dicoelosia ecogroup. 4 samples, 593 specimens, mean spp. diversity 15.8"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. G. Baarli. 1987. Benthic faunal associations in the Lower Silurian Solvik Formation of the Oslo-Asker Districts, Norway. Lethaia 20:75-90 [M. Foote/M. Foote/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 505: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 17.12.1998

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Baarli, 1987"
Anthozoa
 Tabulata -
Tabulata indet. tabulate coral
heliolitid coral
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet. horn coral
rugose coral
Trilobita
  -
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
trilobites
Lophophorata
 Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae
Tentaculites sp. von Schlotheim 1820
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptestiidae
Leangella scissa Davidson 1871
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Eoplectodonta duplicata" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) duplicata
"Eoplectodonta duplicata" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) duplicata de Sowerby and Murchison 1839
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
"Leptaena haverfordensis" = Leptaena (Leptaena) haverfordensis
"Leptaena haverfordensis" = Leptaena (Leptaena) haverfordensis Bancroft 1949
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Eostropheodonta sp. Bancroft 1949
 Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
"Katastrophomena pen" = Katastrophomena penkillensis
"Katastrophomena pen" = Katastrophomena penkillensis Reed 1917
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Lissatrypidae
? Meifodia sp.
originally entered as "? Meifodia sp."
 Pentamerida - Stricklandiidae
Stricklandia lens Sowerby 1839
 Orthida - Dicoelosiidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Isorthis sp. Kozlowski 1929
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
"Cryptothyrella sp." = Hindella
"Cryptothyrella sp." = Hindella Davidson 1882
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
globular bryozoans
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata -
? Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
ramose bryozoans - originally entered as "? Trepostomata indet."
 Fenestrata -
Fenestrata indet. Elias and Condra 1957
fenestrate bryozoans