Södra Sandby () is the second largest locality in

Lund Municipality Lund Municipality () is a municipality in Scania County, southern Sweden. Its seat is the city of Lund. As most municipalities in Sweden, the territory of municipality consists of many former local government units, united in a series of amalg ...

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with 6,136 inhabitants in 2010. It is situated about 10 kilometers east of

Lund Lund (, ;"Lund"
(US) and ) is a city in the provinces of Sweden, province of Scania, southern Swed ...

and 30 kilometers northeast of

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. The

Sandbian The Sandbian is the first stage of the Upper Ordovician. It follows the Darriwilian and is succeeded by the Katian. Its lower boundary is defined as the first appearance datum of the graptolite species '' Nemagraptus gracilis'' around million ...

Age of the

Ordovician The Ordovician ( ) is a geologic period and System (geology), system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era (geology), Era, and the second of twelve periods of the Phanerozoic Eon (geology), Eon. The Ordovician spans 41.6 million years f ...

Period of geological time is named for Södra Sandby where the Lindegård Formation crops out.Södra Sandby
at

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References

Populated places in Lund Municipality {{Skåne-geo-stub