Hovedøya, 5b, SP 76: Hirnantian, Norway

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Meristellidae
Hindella cassidea (Dalman 1828)
26 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Linoporellidae
Leptoskelidion loci Cocks 1982
24 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Giraldiellidae
Comatopoma sp.
3 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Thebesia scopulosa Cocks 1982
97 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Norway State/province:Oslo
Coordinates: 59.9° North, 10.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.6° South, 8.9° West
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:Hirnantian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
Key time interval:Hirnantian Graptolite zone: Normalograptus extraordinarius
Age range of interval:445.20000 - 443.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Langøyene
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: 5b on the old Norwegian scale.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Hovedøen, and SP 14 in Brenchley and Cocks, 1982
Database number:159519
Authorizer:B. Kröger Enterer:B. Kröger
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-08-03 12:13:40 Last modified:2014-08-03 12:13:40
Access level:the public Released:2014-08-03 12:13:40
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

19960. P. J. Brenchley and L. R. M. Cocks. 1982. Ecological associations in a regressive sequence: the latest Ordovician of the Oslo-Asker district, Norway. Palaeontology 25(4):783-815 [S. Finnegan/S. Finnegan/B. Kröger]

Secondary references:

53315 P. J. Brenchley, J. D. Marshall, L. Hints and J. Nolvak. 1997. New isotopic data solving an old biostratigraphic problem: the age of the upper Ordovician brachiopod Holorhynchus giganteus. Journal of the Geological Society 154:335-342 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]