Porkuni Quarry, undifferentiated (Ordovician of Estonia)

Where: Estonia (59.0° N, 25.0° E: paleocoordinates 26.7° S, 0.8° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Porkuni (445.6 - 443.7 Ma)

• Possibly the Arina Fm., but possibly amalgamation from those throughout Porkuni stage.

Environment/lithology: sand shoal; lithified, ooidal limestone

• Oolitic limestone with algae and presence of current-sorted shell banks.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: K. Brood. 1980. Late Ordovician bryozoa from Ringerike, Norway. Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift 60:161-173 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 158490: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 20.07.2014

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Taxonomic list

• Bryozoan systematics
Anthozoa
 Tetradiida - Tetradiidae
Rhabdotetradium frutex4 Klaamann 1966 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Eocatenipora parallela4 Schmidt 1858 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Coccoserididae
Coccoseris tumulosus1 Hill 1953 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Kyphophyllidae
Strombodes middendorfi3 Dybowski 1874 horn coral
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Arthrostylidae
 Cryptostomata - Ptilodictyidae
 Cryptostomata - Rhinidictyidae
"Dicranopora minuta" = Stictopora minuta Brood 1980
Stictopora parvula Brood 1980
 Trepostomata - Halloporidae
 Fenestrata - Chasmatoporidae
  - Phylloporinidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
Platystrophia humilis6 Oraspold 1959
 Orthida - Orthidae
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Strophomenata
 Billingsellida - Clitambonitidae
Vellamo silurica5 Opik 1934
Vellamo aenigma5 Opik 1934
Codonophyllum rhizobolon
  - Codonophyllidae
Codonophyllum rhizobolon2 Dybowski 1873