Where: Norway (59.8° N, 10.4° E: paleocoordinates 23.6° S, 8.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Vik Formation, Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; carbonate and shale
Collection methods: List based on table 22.12, which also gives numbe of specimens. Given broad geographic range, only this locality is included.
Primary reference: B. G. Baarli, H. B. Keilen, and M. E. Johnson. 1999. Silurian communities of the Oslo Region, Norway. In A. J. Boucot and J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 327-349 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 14310: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 30.05.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Favositidae indet. Dana 1846 tabulate coral | |
Heliolitidae indet. Lindström 1876 tabulate coral | |
Rugosa indet. horn coral | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge | |
Bryozoa | |
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Stenolaemata | |
Fenestrata indet. Elias and Condra 1957 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Eospirifer sp. Schuchert 1913 | |
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"Isorthis mackenziei" = Isorthis (Ovalella) mackenziei
"Isorthis mackenziei" = Isorthis (Ovalella) mackenziei Boucot et al. 1966 | |
Pentameroides subrectus Hall and Clarke 1892 | |
Clorinda sp. Barrande 1879 | |
Strophomenata | |
Eoplectodonta sp. Kozlowski 1929 | |
Brachyprion sp. Shaler 1865 |