Skilberg, Smøla Island (Ordovician of Norway)

Where: Norway (63.3° N, 8.0° E: paleocoordinates 30.4° S, 11.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Asaphus raniceps - Asaphus vicarius trilobite zone, Skjølberg Formation, Darriwilian (467.3 - 458.4 Ma)

• Originally given as Smølan (=Smölan or Smoelan). Updated 05/28/15

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Primary reference: T. Strand. 1932. A Lower Ordovician fauna from the Smøla Island, Norway. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 11:356-366 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 56052: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 10.11.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Camerellidae
"Camarella sp." = Camerella
"Camarella sp." = Camerella Billings 1859
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Macluritidae
Teiichispira sp. Yochelson and Jones 1968 snail
Teiichispira
 Euomphalina - Ophiletidae
Malayaspira sp. Kobayashi 1958 snail
Malayaspira
 Murchisoniina - Straparollinidae
"Trochonema (Eunema) smoeleni" = Straparollina smoeleni, Straparollina holtedahli n. sp.
"Trochonema (Eunema) smoeleni" = Straparollina smoeleni Holtedahl 1915 snail
Straparollina holtedahli n. sp. Strand 1932 snail
type locality
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
"Pagodispira norvegica" = Donaldiella cicelia, Lophospira perangulata
"Pagodispira norvegica" = Donaldiella cicelia Billings 1865 snail
Lophospira perangulata Hall 1847 snail
L. peranagulata
 Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
Hormotoma sp. Salter 1859 snail