Kojatangen, Oslo: Kukruse, Norway

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Lesueurillidae
Pararaphistoma (Pararaphistoma) schmidti (Koken 1889)
Pararaphistoma (Pararaphistoma) bipatellera (Koken and Perner 1925)
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Sinuitidae
Sinuites (Sinuites) corpulentus Koken and Perner 1925
see common names

Geography
Country:Norway State/province:Oslo-Asker
Coordinates: 59.9° North, 10.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.7° South, 9.7° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Ordovician Epoch: Late Ordovician
Stage: Sandbian 10 m.y. bin: Ordovician 4
Key time interval: Kukruse
Age range of interval: 457.5 - 456.4 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Vollen
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: 4b of the old literature

Was Elnes (Hakavik). However, 4b is Vollen. (PJW 2014-12-05.)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:black lithified "shale"
Secondary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:offshore shelf
Geology comments: Black shale interbedded with limestone and limestone nodules
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Compilation by Arnold I. Miller of several biostratigraphic and systematic papers (not listed in his notebooks) published over several years in the journal Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift on the geology of the Oslo and Asker regions.
Metadata
Database number:56198
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-11-15 14:02:50 Last modified:2014-12-05 22:57:33
Access level:the public Released:2005-11-15 14:02:50
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

15157. E. L. Yochelson. 1963. The Middle Ordovician of the Oslo Region, Norway. 15. Monoplacophora and Gastropoda. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 43(2):133-213 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]