Norra udden trilobites (Ordovician of Sweden)

Where: Sweden (57.4° N, 17.1° E: paleocoordinates 38.2° S, 8.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holen Formation, Kunda (469.2 - 464.3 Ma)

• Age and stratigraphy based on Nordlund 1989 (GFF 111:64-94) and Struresson 1986 (GFF 108:331-348).

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray limestone

• purely gray limestone with scattered small grains of glauconite in some samples but mostly unglauconitic

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1944

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: B. Bohlin. 1949. The Asaphus Limestone in northernmost Öland. Bulletin of the Geological Institution of the University of Uppsala 33:529-570 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 188214: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 25.08.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyx nasutus
Ampyx nasutus Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Asaphus raniceps, "Megalaspis extenuata" = Megistaspis (Megistaspidella) extenuata
Asaphus raniceps Dalman 1827 trilobite
"Megalaspis extenuata" = Megistaspis (Megistaspidella) extenuata Wahlenberg 1821 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Remopleurides sp.
Remopleurides sp. Portlock 1843 trilobite
 Lichida - Lichidae
"Lichas celorrhin" = Metopolichas celorrhin
"Lichas celorrhin" = Metopolichas celorrhin Angelin 1854 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus esmarcki
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Cyrtometopus affinis, ? Cyrtometopus sp.
? Cyrtometopus sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
"Pliomera fischeri" = Pliomera fisheri
"Pliomera fischeri" = Pliomera fisheri Eichwald 1825 trilobite