near Skarahaugen, Vestfossen: Dapingian, Norway
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita
- Asaphida
- Asaphidae
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Megistaspis (Rhinoferus) hyorrhina
(Leuchtenberg 1843)
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recombined as Rhinoferus hyorrhinus | |||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Norway | State/province: | Eiker-Sandsvær | County: | Øvre Eiker |
Coordinates: | 59.7° North, 9.9° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 35.7° South, 12.6° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Middle Ordovician |
Stage: | Dapingian | 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 2 |
Key time interval: | Dapingian | Trilobite zone: | Megistaspis limbata |
Age range of interval: | 470.00000 - 467.30000 m.y. ago |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | muddy "limestone" |
Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collection method comments: Paleontologisk Museum, University of Oslo, Norway, (PMO) |
Metadata
Database number: | 191043 | ||
Authorizer: | B. Kröger | Enterer: | B. Kröger |
Modifier: | B. Kröger | ||
Created: | 2018-01-05 04:03:35 | Last modified: | 2018-01-05 04:04:07 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-01-05 04:03:35 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
64392. | O. A. Hoel and M. Høyberget. 2002. The Lower Ordovician trilobite Megistaspis (Rhinoferus) hyorrhina (Leuchtenberg, 1843) in Norway, with notes on its autecology. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 82:45-51 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger] |