Lindøya , Husbergøya Formation (Ordovician of Norway)

Also known as Lindøya Island

Where: Oslo, Norway (59.9° N, 10.7° E: paleocoordinates 30.4° S, 9.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Husbergøya Formation, Rawtheyan (448.8 - 445.2 Ma)

• Tretaspis, 5a

•"Gastropod limestone, 5a", in Strand (1934)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: PMO

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 73439: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 15.06.2007, edited by Björn Kröger

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Stygina latifrons4 Portlock 1843 trilobite
Stygina latifrons extensa
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Tretaspis sortita3 Reed 1935 trilobite
Tretaspis sortita broeggeri
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Remopleurides nikolaiseni4 Owen 1981 trilobite
 Proetida - Tropidocoryphidae
Ascetopeltis bockeliei Owens 1973 trilobite
Cephalopoda
 Oncocerida - Acleistoceratidae
Tergomya
 Archinacellida - Archinacellidae
Archinacella sp.1 Ulrich and Scofield 1897
Archinacella approximans2 Koken and Perner 1925
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Cymbularia bullatus1 Koken and Perner 1925 snail
 Bellerophontida - Sinuitidae
Sinuites sp.1 Koken 1896 snail