A new early Ordovician Didymograptid, and its bearing on the correlation of the Skiddaw Group of England with the Tøyen Shale of Scandinavia
- 1 July 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Geological Magazine
- Vol. 128 (4) , 335-343
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s001675680001760x
Abstract
Didymograptus (s.l.) rigoletto sp.nov. is a distinctive species in the balticus group of didymograptids occurring in the Tøyen Shale (Lower Ordovician). In three localities in Sweden it has a short range near the top of the range of Tetragraptus phyllograptoides, and it occurs at about the same level at localities in the Oslo region, Norway; at most of these localities it occurs within the range of Tetragraptus of the approximatus group. Its presence in the Skiddaw Group of the English Lake District indicates the occurrence there of the basal Arenig (sensu lato), equivalent to the T. phyllograptoides Biozone of Scandinavia and the T. approximatus Biozone (= Lancefieldian 3) of the Australasian succession.Keywords
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