Where: Norway (59.8° N, 10.4° E: paleocoordinates 26.3° S, 9.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Spirodden Member (Solvik Formation), Rhuddanian to Rhuddanian (443.4 - 438.5 Ma)

• Also known from Sylling Mbr. of Saelabonn-Solvik Formation near Toverud Fram in Sylling, Modum District. Latter half of Rhuddanian and slighly into early Aeronian.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous mudstone and limestone

Collection methods: Table 22.18 gives abundance data and forms basis for this list. Several samples are combined in this table. This collection overlaps substantially with PBDB collections 503 and 13844, but it has a more extensive faunal list.

Primary reference: B. G. Baarli, H. B. Keilen, and M. E. Johnson. 1999. Silurian communities of the Oslo Region, Norway. In A. J. Boucot and J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 327-349 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14318: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 30.05.2002

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