Mösseberg, Bestorp: Pirgu, Sweden

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Meristellidae
Hindella incipiens (Williams 1951)
Sheehan 1977 1 specimen
Trilobita - Proetida - Tropidocoryphidae
Decoroproetus brevifrons (Angelin 1854)
see common names

Geography
Country:Sweden State/province:Dalarne County:Västergötland
Coordinates: 58.2° North, 13.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.8° South, 7.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:Katian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
Key time interval:Pirgu
Age range of interval:449.60000 - 445.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Jonstorp Member:Öglunda Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: top of D. complanatus zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:73452
Authorizer:P. Wagner, B. Kröger Enterer:P. Wagner, B. Kröger
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-06-15 15:38:54 Last modified:2013-12-05 10:14:21
Access level:the public Released:2007-06-15 15:38:54
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
24639. R. M. Owens. 1973. Ordovician Proetidae (Trilobita) from Scandinavia. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 53:117-181 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

48613 J. Bergström. 1968. Upper Ordovician Brachiopods from Västergötland, Sweden. Geologica et Palaeontologica 2:1-35 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
49365 P. Sheehan. 1977. Late Ordovician and Earliest Silurian Meristellid Brachiopods in Scandinavia. Journal of Paleontology 51(1):23-43 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]