Where: Sweden (57.3° N, 17.0° E: paleocoordinates 39.5° S, 9.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Asaphus lepidurus trilobite zone, Lanna Formation, Volkhov (471.1 - 469.2 Ma)
• Meterage from "Blodläget" marker bed. Age and stratigraphy based on Nordlund 1989 (GFF 111:64-94) and Struresson 1986 (GFF 108:331-348).
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1947
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: B. Bohlin. 1949. The Asaphus Limestone in northernmost Öland. Bulletin of the Geological Institution of the University of Uppsala 33:529-570 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 188265: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 27.08.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
"Asaphus cf. lepidurus" = Asaphus (Asaphus) lepidurus, Ptychopyge cf. angustifrons
"Asaphus cf. lepidurus" = Asaphus (Asaphus) lepidurus Nieszkowski 1859 trilobite
Ptychopyge cf. angustifrons trilobite | |
Megalaspis hyorrhina | |
"Megalaspis hyorrhina" = Rhinoferus hyorrhinus
"Megalaspis hyorrhina" = Rhinoferus hyorrhinus Leuchtenberg 1843 |