W551, west-north-west of Tønnerud (Ordovician to of Norway)

Where: Hadeland, Norway (60.4° N, 10.4° E: paleocoordinates 31.0° S, 9.7° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Diplograptus foliaceus graptolite zone, Upper Beds Member (Furuberget Formation), Marshbrookian to Marshbrookian (455.0 - 453.0 Ma)

• Given as Furuberg, but now given as Furubreget

•= Cyclocrinus beds of older literature;

•4bγ in the old Norse scale.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, black, silty lime mudstone and limestone

• Black, dark silty, calcareous mudstone/shale with occasional horizons of nodular and planar grey limestone; very deep, distal shelf, offshore

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: D. A. T. Harper and A. W. Owen. 1984. The Caradoc brachiopod and trilobite fauna of the Upper Kirkerud Group, Hadeland, Norway. Geologica et Palaeontologica 18(1):21-51 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 166927: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 04.03.2015

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Taxonomic list

• Compilation of several lists: needs to be broken up! (PJW)
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Remopleurides lunnerensis Nikolaisen 1983 trilobite
 Proetida - Tropidocoryphidae
Decoroproetus furubergensis Owens 1970 trilobite
 Proetida - Aulacopleuridae
? Harpidella sp. M'Coy 1849 trilobite
 Lichida - Lichidae
Platylichas cf. laxatus McCoy 1846 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
"Toxochasmops extensus" = Toxochasmops (Toxochasmops) extensus
"Toxochasmops extensus" = Toxochasmops (Toxochasmops) extensus Boeck 1838 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
Stenopareia glaber Kjerulf 1865 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892