Gillberga Quarry trilobites: Kunda, Sweden
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Craniata
- Craniida
- Craniidae
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Pseudocrania sp.
M'Coy 1851
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Trilobita
- Corynexochida
- Illaenidae
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Illaenus esmarcki
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Trilobita
- Trinucleida
- Raphiophoridae
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Ampyx nasutus
(Dalman 1827)
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Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Asaphidae
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Megalaspis acuticauda
Angelin 1854
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| recombined as Megistaspis (Megistaspidella) acuticauda | |||||||
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Ptychopyge angustifrons
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Asaphus ? lepidurus
Nieszkowski 1859
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| recombined as Asaphus (Asaphus) lepidurus | |||||||
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Pterygometopidae
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Pterygometopus sp.
Schmidt 1881
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Geography
| Country: | Sweden | County: | Öland Island |
| Coordinates: | 57.1° North, 16.9° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.5° South, 8.3° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Middle Ordovician |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 2-3 | ||
| Key time interval: | Kunda | ||
| Age range of interval: | 467.10000 - 462.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Holen | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Age and stratigraphy based on Nordlund 1989 (GFF 111:64-94) and Struresson 1986 (GFF 108:331-348). |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray lithified "limestone" |
| Lithology description: purely gray limestone with gradually increasing amounts of glauconite upsection | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 188218 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Hopkins | Enterer: | M. Hopkins |
| Modifier: | M. Hopkins | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2017-08-25 16:30:29 | Last modified: | 2017-08-25 16:50:39 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2017-08-25 16:30:29 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 63131. | B. Bohlin. 1949. The Asaphus Limestone in northernmost Öland. Bulletin of the Geological Institution of the University of Uppsala 33:529-570 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins] |