Seby Limestone Assemblage (Ordovician of Sweden)

Also known as Seby Limestone Assemblage, Oland, Sweden

Where: Sweden (57.0° N, 17.0° E: paleocoordinates 37.1° S, 7.1° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pseudoamplexograptus distichus graptolite zone, Seby Limestone Formation, Lasnamagi (463.5 - 460.9 Ma)

• Laufeldochitina striata chitinozoan zone & Pygodus serra conodont zone.

•Was entered as Late/Upper Llanvirn

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, argillaceous, calcareous limestone and sandstone

• Variegated red/brown and grey argillaceous limestone and fine, grey calcarenite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: V. Jaanusson. 1960. The Viruan (Middle Ordovician) of Oland. Bulletin of the Geological Institutions of the University of Uppsala 38:207-287 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2933: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 22.07.1999, edited by Torsten Liebrecht

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Taxonomic list

 Rhombifera - Echinosphaeritidae
Echinosphaerites sp. Wahlenberg 1818
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Abrograptidae
Abrograptus sp. graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Retiolitidae
 Graptoloidea - Climacograptidae
Climacograptus sp. Hall 1865 climacograptid
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
Hyolithes sp. d'Eichwald 1840
Cephalopoda
 Tarphycerida - Trocholitidae
Trocholites sp. Conrad 1838
 Multiceratoidea - Clinoceratidae
Clinoceras sp. Mascke 1876
 Orthocerida - Baltoceratidae
Bactroceras avus Holm 1898
Cochlioceras sp. Eichwald 1860
 Orthoceratoidea - Protobactritidae
Protobactrites sp. Hyatt 1900
 Lituitida - Lituitidae
Lituites sp. Bertrand 1763
 Lituitida - Sinoceratidae
Rhynchorthoceras sp. Remelé 1882
Ostracoda
 Hollinocopida - Tvaerenellidae
Euprimites sp. Hessland 1949 ostracod
 Hollinocopida - Tetradellidae
Tallinnella sp. Opik 1937 ostracod
 Beyrichicopida - Ctenonotellidae
Steusloffia sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1908 ostracod
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyx sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Asaphida - Nileidae
Nileus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Pseudoasaphus sp. Schmidt 1901 trilobite
? Pseudobasilicus sp. Reed 1930 trilobite
originally entered as "Pseudobasilicus? sp."
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Remopleurides sp. Portlock 1843 trilobite