Körgessaare, Kõrgessaare Fm. (Ordovician of Estonia)

Where: Hiiu, Estonia (59.0° N, 22.5° E: paleocoordinates 29.4° S, 2.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kõrgessaare Formation, Vormsi (452.0 - 445.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: A. Opik. 1934. Über Klitamboniten. Publications of the Geological Institution of the University of Tartu 39:1-240 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 166039: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 03.02.2015

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Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
 Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
Clathrodictyon vormsiense4 Riabinin 1951 stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Streptelasma (Kenophyllum) siluricum2 Dybowski 1873 horn coral
"Streptelasma (Grewingkia) europaeum" = Grewingkia europaeum3 Roemer 1861 horn coral
Streptelasma (Grewingkia) europaeum europaeum
Rectigrewingkia anthelion3 Dybowski 1873 horn coral
Kenophyllum subcylindricum3 Kaljo 1961 horn coral
Streptelasma (Kenophyllum) subcylindricum
 Cystiphyllida - Palaeocyclidae
Rhabdocyclus aequispinatus1 Reiman 1954 horn coral
Strophomenata
 Billingsellida - Clitambonitidae
Vellamo verneuili Eichwald 1843
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Orthidae
"Orthis lyckholmiensis" = Sulevorthis lyckholmiensis5 Wysogorski 1900
 Orthida - Productorthidae
Nicolella oswaldi5 Buch 1849
Nicolella oswaldi oswaldi
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Glyptorthis plana6 Rõõmusoks 1964
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
Platystrophia saxbyensis5 Oraspold 1959