Kårgärde 5.50 - 6.34 m (Ordovician of Sweden)

Also known as Kårgärde, Folkeslunda Fm.

Where: Dalarna, Sweden (63.0° N, 14.5° E: paleocoordinates 31.0° S, 7.9° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Laufeldochitina striata other zone, Folkeslunda Limestone Formation, Lasnamagi (463.5 - 460.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fine-grained, gray limestone

• One bed of fine-grained, grey limestone with chamositic grains.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: V. Jaanusson. 1963. Lower and Middle Viruan (Middle Ordovician) of the Siljan district. Bulletin of Geological Institutions of the University of Uppsala 42(3):1-40 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192379: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.03.2018

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Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Beyrichicopida - Ctenonotellidae
Steusloffia linnarssoni Krause 1889 ostracod
 Hollinocopida - Eurychilinidae
Laccochilina (Laccochilina) sp. Hessland 1949 ostracod
 Hollinocopida - Tvaerenellidae
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Nileidae
Nileus sp. Dalman 1827 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Ampyx (Cnemidopyge) "n. sp." Dalman 1827 trilobite
Brachiopoda
  -
Tegulella minuta Holmer 1989
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoideinae indet. Schuchert 1929
 Siphonotretida - Siphonotretidae
 Acrotretida - Biernatidae
Biernatia holmi Holmer 1989
 Acrotretida - Scaphelasmatidae
Scaphelasma mica Popov 1975
 Acrotretida - Eoconulidae
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
Conotreta mica Gorjansky 1969
Cyrtonotreta sp. Holmer 1989