Gryssen (Ordovician of Sweden)

Where: Dalarne, Sweden (60.4° N, 14.7° E: paleocoordinates 26.7° S, 6.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Boda Limestone Formation, Hirnantian (445.2 - 443.4 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified grainstone

• Lime grainstone; shelf carbonate mounds

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. M. Owens. 1973. Ordovician Proetidae (Trilobita) from Scandinavia. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 53:117-181 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 73406: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 14.06.2007, edited by Björn Kröger

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Proetida - Scharyiidae
Scharyia heothina1 Owens 1974 trilobite
 Proetida - Tropidocoryphidae
Stenoblepharum norvegicum Owens 1973 trilobite
"Proetus convexus" = Stenoblepharum warburgae2 Pribyl 1964 trilobite