Where: Norway (68.8° N, 15.0° E: paleocoordinates 10.5° S, 9.5° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Steinsfjorden Formation, Homerian (430.5 - 427.4 Ma)
• Type locality is middle part of formation. Others are middle and upper part of fm.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; carbonate and shelly/skeletal, calcareous mudstone
Collection methods: Table 22.17 gives abundance data and forms basis for this 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 14317: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 30.05.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Anthozoa | |
Catenipora sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral | |
Favosites subgothlandicus tabulate coral
Favosites hisingeri Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 tabulate coral | |
Thecia swinderenana tabulate coral | |
Syringopora norvegica tabulate coral
Syringopora parva Lukin 2006 tabulate coral | |
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Gastropoda | |
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Bellerophontidae indet. M'Coy 1851 snail | |
"Oriostoma discors" = Poleumita discors
"Oriostoma discors" = Poleumita discors Sowerby 1814 snail | |
"Platyceras cf. cornutum" = Platyostoma cornutum
"Platyceras cf. cornutum" = Platyostoma cornutum Hisinger 1837 snail | |
"Oriostoma cf. globosa" = Oriostoma globosum
"Oriostoma cf. globosa" = Oriostoma globosum von Schlotheim 1820 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
cf. Orthonota sp. Conrad 1841 clam | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
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Cephalopoda | |
Strophomenata | |
Protomegastrophia semiglobosa Davidson 1871 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Resserella canalis Sowerby 1839 | |
Delthyris elevata Dalman 1828 | |
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Microsphaeridiorhynchus ? nucula Sowerby 1839 | |
Bryozoa | |
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Ostracoda | |
Herrmannina sp. Kegel 1933 ostracod |