Visby, Lower Visby Fm. (Silurian of Sweden)

Where: Gotland, Sweden (57.5° N, 18.6° E: paleocoordinates 24.1° S, 3.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Visby Formation, Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

• "Lower Visby Formation", in Hoel (2011)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Primary reference: O. A. Hoel. 2011. Strophomenidae, Leptostrophiidae, Strophodontidae and Shaleriidae (Brachiopoda, Strophomenida) from the Silurian of Gotland, Sweden. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 85:201-229 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192174: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 14.03.2018

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
"Bellimurina wisgoriensis" = Cyphomenoidea wisgoriensis
"Bellimurina wisgoriensis" = Cyphomenoidea wisgoriensis Lamont and Gilbert 1945
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
"Brachyprion (Erinostrophia) walmstedti" = Brachyprion (Erinostrophia) walmstedti, "Megastrophia (Protomegastrophia) walmstedti" = Brachyprion (Erinostrophia) walmstedti
"Brachyprion (Erinostrophia) walmstedti" = Brachyprion (Erinostrophia) walmstedti Lindström 1861
"Megastrophia (Protomegastrophia) walmstedti" = Brachyprion (Erinostrophia) walmstedti Lindström 1861