Naersnes Section, 2nd Limestone Lens ( of Norway)

Also known as Alum Shale, Naersnes, Oslo, Norway

Where: Norway (60.0° N, 11.0° E: paleocoordinates 37.6° S, 15.0° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Boeckaspis hirsuta trilobite zone, Alum Shale Formation, Tremadoc (486.5 - 477.7 Ma)

• Lowermost Tremadoc

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, black shale and limestone

• Black shale interbedded with dark limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: D. L. Bruton, B. D. Erdtmann, and L. Koch. 1982. The Naersnes section, Oslo region, Norway: a candidate for the Cambrian-Ordovician boundary stratotype at the base of the Tremadoc Series. In M. G. Bassett and W. T. Dean (eds.), The Cambrian-Ordovician boundary: sections, fossil distributions, and correlations (3)61-69 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3105: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 25.07.1999, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Olenida - Olenidae
"Boeckaspis hirsuta" = Sphaerophthalmella trilobite
Parabolina heres trilobite
Parabolina heres heres
Conodonta
 Proconodontida - Cordylodontidae
Cordylodus proavus Müller 1959 conodont
Cordylodus lindstromi Druce and Jones 1971 conodont
Cordylodus intermedius Furnish 1938 conodont
"Iapetognathus preaengensis" = Iapetognathus aengensis Lindström 1955 conodont
Eoconodontus notchpeakensis Miller 1969 conodont
  - Amphigeisinidae
Phakelodus tenuis Muller 1959 conodont
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Anisograptidae
Anisograptus sp. Ruedemann 1937 graptolite