Vestfossen Railway Station: Tremadocian - Floian, Norway

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Asaphida - Nileidae
Nileus orbiculatus Tjernvik 1956
Trilobita - Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Agnostida - Metagnostidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Norway State/province:Eiker-Sandsvær County:Øvre Eiker
Coordinates: 59.7° North, 9.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.5° South, 68.8° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Ordovician Epoch: Early Ordovician
Stage: Tremadocian - Floian 10 m.y. bin: Ordovician 1 - Ordovician 2
Key time interval: Tremadocian - Floian Trilobite zone:  Megistaspis (Paramegistaspis) planilimbata
Age range of interval: 485.4 - 470 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tøyen Member:Hagastrand
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Secondary lithology: "shale"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:190917
Authorizer:B. Kröger Enterer:B. Kröger
Modifier:B. Kröger
Created:2017-12-21 13:30:11 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2017-12-21 13:30:11
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
63969. O. A. Hoel. 1999. Trilobites of the Hagastrand Member (Tøyen Formation, lowermost Arenig) from tbe Oslo Region, Norway, Part Il : Remaining non-asaphid groups. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 79:259-280 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]