Inter-reef biota, Bunaes (Ordovician to of Norway)

Where: Oslo, Norway (59.0° N, 9.7° E: paleocoordinates 32.6° S, 10.3° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Bunaes Member (Steinvika Limestone Formation), Soudleyan to Soudleyan (458.4 - 454.0 Ma)

• = Encrinitenkalk, Encrinite Limestone, 4b∂

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

• Cross-bedded bioclastic limestone; interreef

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: T. L. Harland. 1980. The Middle Ordovician of the Oslo region, Norway, 28. Lithostratigraphy of the Steinvika Limestone Formation, Landesund-Skien district. Norsk Geologiske Tidsskrift 60:269-278 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3252: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 27.07.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
Liospira sp.
Liospira sp. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Parastrophinidae
? Parastrophina sp.
? Parastrophina sp. Schuchert and LeVene 1929
originally entered as "Parastrophina? sp."
 Atrypida - Anazygidae
Zygospira sp.
Zygospira sp. Hall 1862
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
Platystrophia dentata
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
"Strophomena cf. steinari" = Keilamena steinari
"Strophomena cf. steinari" = Keilamena steinari Spjeldnaes 1957
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
? Triplesia sp.
? Triplesia sp. Hall 1859
originally entered as "Triplesia? sp."
 Billingsellida - Clitambonitidae
Vellamo sp.
Vellamo sp. Opik 1930
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Stenopareia glaber
Stenopareia glaber Kjerulf 1865 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
"Toxochasmops extensus" = Toxochasmops (Toxochasmops) extensus
"Toxochasmops extensus" = Toxochasmops (Toxochasmops) extensus Boeck 1838 trilobite