Also known as Frierfjorden

Where: Skien-Langesund, Norway (59.1° N, 9.6° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 28.1° S, 69.6° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Fossum Formation, Sandbian (458.2 - 452.8 Ma)

• "Echinosphaerites Beds 4b a", in Nikolaisen (1961) = Fossum Fm.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: F. Nikolaisen. 1961. The Middle Ordovician of the Oslo Region, Norway 7. Trilobites of the suborder Cheirurina. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 41(2-4):279-310 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 191114: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 10.01.2018

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