Marsjö trilobites (red limestone) (Ordovician of Sweden)

Where: Sweden (57.0° N, 16.9° E: paleocoordinates 38.5° S, 8.3° 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, phosphatic, red limestone

• red limestone with dark brown grains of phosphorite

Size class: macrofossils

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 188222: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 25.08.2017, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

• cephalopod rich
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Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Illaenus esmarcki
 Lichida - Lichidae
"Lichas verrucosus" = Metopolichas verrucosus, "Lichas celorrhin" = Metopolichas celorrhin
"Lichas verrucosus" = Metopolichas verrucosus Eichwald 1842 trilobite
"Lichas celorrhin" = Metopolichas celorrhin Angelin 1854 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyx nasutus
Ampyx nasutus Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Niobe frontalis, Asaphus raniceps, Ptychopyge sp., "Megalaspis heros" = Megistaspis, Megistaspis (Megistaspidella) bombifrons, "Megalaspis extenuata" = Megistaspis (Megistaspidella) extenuata, Pseudasaphus sp.
Niobe frontalis Dalman 1827 trilobite
Asaphus raniceps Dalman 1827 trilobite
Ptychopyge sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite
"Megalaspis heros" = Megistaspis trilobite
"Megalaspis extenuata" = Megistaspis (Megistaspidella) extenuata Wahlenberg 1821 trilobite
Pseudasaphus sp. Schmidt 1901 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
"Pliomera fischeri" = Pliomera fisheri
"Pliomera fischeri" = Pliomera fisheri Eichwald 1825 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
"Ceraurus ingricus" = Laneites ingrica, "Nieszkowskia tumidus" = Nieszkowskia tumida, Cyrtometopus affinis, ? Cyrtometopus sp., Cyrtometopus clavifrons
"Ceraurus ingricus" = Laneites ingrica Schmidt 1881 trilobite
"Nieszkowskia tumidus" = Nieszkowskia tumida Angelin 1854 trilobite
? Cyrtometopus sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite
Cyrtometopus clavifrons Dalman 1827 trilobite