Skålberget, Boda Lmst. Fm (Ordovician of Sweden)

Where: Dalarne, Sweden (61.1° N, 15.2° E: paleocoordinates 27.8° S, 6.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Boda Limestone Formation, Pirgu (449.5 - 445.2 Ma)

• "Lowermost part of the Boda Limestone, flank facies, (MS locality 5 of V. Jaanusson)", in Wright (1968)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: PMO, Riksmuseet

Primary reference: A. D. Wright. 1968. The brachiopod Dicoelosia biloba (Linnaeus) and related species. Arkiv för Zoologi, Serie 2 20:261-319 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 163115: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 12.10.2014, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dicoelosiidae
Dicoelosia indenta Cooper 1930
Dicoelosia transversa Wright 1968
 Sphaeronitida - Sphaeronitidae
Sphaeronites (Peritaphros) variabilis2 Paul and Bockelie 1983
Blastoidea
 Coronata - Stephanocrinidae
Stephanocrinus ramsbottomi1 Donovan and Paul 1985 blastoid