Trematis-bivalve assemblages, Langoyene Fm.: Hirnantian, Norway

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Miodiomorphoida indet.
modiolopsids
Anthozoa - Rugosa
Rugosa indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850
streptelasmids
Bivalvia - Grammysiidae
Cuneamya sp. Hall and Whitfield 1875
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pterineidae
Pterinea sp. Goldfuss 1832
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Eostropheodonta sp. Bancroft 1949
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Draboviidae
Hirnantia sp. Lamont 1935
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Meristellidae
Hindella sp. Davidson 1882
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Plectothyrella sp. Temple 1965
Lingulata - Lingulida - Trematidae
Trematis sp. Sharpe 1848
see common names

Geography
Country:Norway State/province:Oslo-Asker
Coordinates: 60.0° North, 11.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.5° South, 8.7° West
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:Hirnantian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
*Epoch:Late/Upper Ashgill
Key time interval:Hirnantian
Age range of interval:445.20000 - 443.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Langoyen
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: "late Ashgillian (Hirnantian)"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface
Geology comments: "SS in beds overlying Hirnantia assoc. (sensu stricto). inner shelf, lower shoreface (shallowest of known clastic assoc. w/body fossils)"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:"Brenchley and Cocks, 1982"
Metadata
Database number:362
Authorizer:A. Miller, J. Sepkoski Enterer:M. Sommers
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1998-11-20 10:07:18 Last modified:2017-01-26 09:26:49
Access level:the public Released:1998-11-20 10:07:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

19960. P. J. Brenchley and L. R. M. Cocks. 1982. Ecological associations in a regressive sequence: the latest Ordovician of the Oslo-Asker district, Norway. Palaeontology 25(4):783-815 [S. Finnegan/S. Finnegan/B. Kröger]