Eurypterid-Associated Biota of the Anglaspis Horizon at Red Bay, Spitsbergen (Devonian of Norway)

Where: Norway (79.8° N, 12.0° E: paleocoordinates 2.1° N, 14.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Fraenkelryggen Formation, Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• "Anglaspis Horizon of Fraenkelryggen Formation"

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; sandstone

• "Overlies nonmarine; probably marginal marine in view of the lingulids and Lepterditia, i.e. BA 1 if the eurypterids actually occur with the brackish items."
• "sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Størmer. 1934. Downtonian [Silurian] Merostomata from Spitsbergen, with remarks on the suborder Synziphosura. Skrifter - Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab 1934(3):1-26 [R. Plotnick/R. Plotnick]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26929: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 08.11.2002, edited by Roy Plotnick

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
land plants
Ostracoda
 Leperditicopida - Isochilinidae
Isochilina sp. Jones 1858 ostracod
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
Leperditia sp. Rouault 1851 ostracod
 Euchelicerata -
Bunaia heintzi Størmer 1934
Euchelicerata
 Eurypterida - Pterygotidae
Pterygotus sp. Agassiz 1839 eurypterid
"described from overlying rotundata horizon of the Ben Nevis Formation"
Pterygotus vogti Størmer 1934 eurypterid
"described from overlying rotundata horizon of the Ben Nevis Formation"
 Eurypterida - Eurypteridae
Eurypterus sp. De Kay 1825 eurypterid
"described from overlying rotundata horizon of the Ben Nevis Formation"
unclassified
  -
Annelida indet. Lamarck 1809
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
"Lingula" sp. Bruguiére 1797
Bivalvia
  -
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Pteraspidomorpha
 Cyathaspidei - Traquairaspidae
"Traquairaspis sp." = Phialaspis
"Traquairaspis sp." = Phialaspis Wills 1935
 Poraspidei - Ctenaspidae
 Poraspidei - Anglaspidae
 Pteraspidiformes - Protopteraspididae
Protopteraspis sp. Leriche 1924
  - Cyathaspididae
Poraspis sp. Kiaer 1932
 Corvaspidiformes - Corvaspididae
Corvaspis sp. Woodward 1934
 Cyathaspidiformes - Dinaspidellidae
 Ichnofossils -