Klittberget (Ordovician of Sweden)

Where: Dalarne, Sweden (61.3° N, 14.6° E: paleocoordinates 25.8° S, 7.2° 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

Collection methods: PMO, Riksmuseet

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 73460: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 15.06.2007, edited by Björn Kröger

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Sphaerocoryphe punctata2 Angelin 1854 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
"Illaenus roemeri" = Illaenus (Parillaenus) roemeri2 Murchison 1839 trilobite
Illaenus linnarssoni2 Holm 1882 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
"Bronteus laticauda" = Eobronteus laticauda2
"Bronteus laticauda" = Eobronteus laticauda2 Wahlenberg 1818 trilobite
 Proetida - Scharyiidae
"Panarchaeogonus trigodus" = Panarchaeogonus trigodus1, "Cyphaspis trigoda" = Panarchaeogonus trigodus2
"Panarchaeogonus trigodus" = Panarchaeogonus trigodus1 Warburg 1925 trilobite
"Cyphaspis trigoda" = Panarchaeogonus trigodus2 Warburg 1925 trilobite
 Proetida - Proetidae
Proetus sp.2 Steininger 1831 trilobite
 Proetida - Tropidocoryphidae
? Ascetopeltis "sp. 2" Owens 1973 trilobite
Decoroproetus "sp. 2" Pribyl 1946 trilobite