Stenninge section trilobites (power-line pole 9): Kunda, Sweden

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Craniata - Craniida - Craniidae
Pseudocrania sp. M'Coy 1851
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Megalaspis rudis Angelin 1854
replaced by Megistaspis
Asaphus raniceps Dalman 1827
Trilobita - Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
Pterygometopus sclerops (Dalman 1827)
Trilobita - Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Pliomera fischeri (Eichwald 1825)
recombined as Pliomera fisheri
see common names

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:glauconitic lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: equivalent to "Hjorthamn limestone" = variegated (partly gray with slightly reddish tint, partly brownish-black) limestone with large glauconitic grains
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:188280
Authorizer:M. Hopkins Enterer:M. Hopkins
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2017-08-27 10:28:00 Last modified:2017-08-27 10:28:00
Access level:the public Released:2017-08-27 10:28:00
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]