Where: Estonia (59.4° N, 27.2° E: paleocoordinates 31.2° S, 0.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Nemagraptus gracilis graptolite zone, Kiviõla Member (Viivikonna Formation), Kukruse (458.0 - 456.8 Ma)

• The shale in this region should be the Kiviõla member of the Viivikonna formation. The oil shales come from the lower 5 meters of the formation (Saadre 2004).

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: V. Jaanusson and M. G. Bassett. 1993. Orthambonites and related Ordovician brachiopod genera. Palaeontology 36(1):21-63 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 160501: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 23.08.2014, edited by Pete Wagner

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