Lower Arenig allochthonous shales in Jamtland region, Sweden: Arenig, Sweden

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Pterobranchia - Graptoloidea - Phyllograptidae
Tetragraptus sp. Salter 1863
Phyllograptus sp. Hall 1858
Pterobranchia - Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851
Trilobita - Olenida - Olenidae
? Parabolinella sp. Brögger 1882
originally entered as "Parabolinella? sp."
Trilobita - Asaphida - Asaphidae
Niobella sp. Reed 1931
spelled with current rank as Niobe (Niobella)
Promegalaspides sp. WestergÄrd 1939
Plesiomegalaspis sp. (Thoral 1946)
reassigned as Kayseraspis (Plesiomegalaspis)
Trilobita - Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Remopleuridiella sp. Ross 1951
see common names

Geography
Country:Sweden
Coordinates: 63.0° North, 15.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.3° South, 8.9° West
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 2
*Period:Early/Lower Ordovician - Middle Ordovician *Epoch:Early/Lower Arenig
Key time interval:Arenig
Age range of interval:477.70000 - 468.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray lithified "shale"
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: Dark grey shale
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:3249
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:P. Novack-Gottshall
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-07-27 20:27:53 Last modified:2003-07-18 18:01:39
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

111. T. E. Tjernvik. 1956. On the Early Ordovician of Sweden stratigraphy and fauna. Bulletin of the Geological Institutions of the University of Uppsala 36(6):109-284 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Clement]