Profilstranda, L. platypyga fauna, Ny Friesland: Blackhillsian, Norway

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Ptychopariida - Shumardiidae
Conophrys sp. Callaway 1877
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Lachnostoma platypyga Fortey and Bruton 2013
Stenorhachis sp. Hintze and Jaanusson 1956
Trilobita - Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Eorobergia sp. Cooper 1953
Trilobita - Proetida - Bathyuridae
Benthamaspis conica Fortey 1979
Benthamaspis gibberula (Billings 1865)
Bathyurus gibberulus
Trilobita - Proetida - Dimeropygidae
Ischyrotoma sp. Raymond 1925
see common names

Geography
Country:Norway State/province:Spitsbergen
Coordinates: 79.9° North, 17.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:79.8° North, 17.7° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Early/Lower Ordovician
Stage:Floian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 2
Key time interval:Blackhillsian Trilobite zone: Lachnostoma platypyga
Age range of interval:473.90000 - 470.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kirtonryggen Member:Nordporten
Stratigraphy comments: "from 200 - 220 m of Nordporten member", in Fortey & Bruton, 2013
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: calcareous "limestone"
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:189839
Authorizer:B. Kröger Enterer:B. Kröger
Created:2017-11-19 05:27:23 Last modified:2017-11-19 05:27:23
Access level:the public Released:2017-11-19 05:27:23
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
63810. R. A. Fortey and D. L. Bruton. 2013. Lower Ordovician trilobites of the Kirtonryggen Formation, Spitsbergen. Fossils and Strata 59:1-116 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]