Djupvik trilobites (power-line pole 9) (Ordovician of Sweden)

Where: Sweden (57.0° N, 16.8° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 29.0° S, 68.1° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holen Formation, Kunda (469.1 - 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, glauconitic limestone

• Purer, richly glauconite-bearing limestone evidently forming heavy beds

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Specimens collected from filling around power-line pole

Primary reference: B. Bohlin. 1949. The Asaphus Limestone in northernmost Ă–land. 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 188224: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Melanie Hopkins on 25.08.2017

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Taxonomic list

Artiopoda
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
"Megalaspis acuticauda" = Megistaspis (Megistaspidella) acuticauda
"Megalaspis acuticauda" = Megistaspis (Megistaspidella) acuticauda Angelin 1854 trilobite