Aluvere Quarry, Vasavere Member (Ordovician of Estonia)

Where: Lääne-Viru, Estonia (59.4° N, 26.4° E: paleocoordinates 32.7° S, 0.5° W)

When: Diplograptus multidens graptolite zone, Vasavere Member (Kahula Formation), Idavere (460.9 - 455.8 Ma)

• "C3 beta= Idavere", in Rõõmusoks (1959)

•Xenasaphus devexus trilobite zone

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: A. Roomusoks. 2004. Ordovician strophomenoid brachiopods of northern Estonia. Fossilia Baltica 3:1-150 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 168405: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 22.04.2015

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
 Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Septomena alliku Oraspold 1956
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena alliku1, "Leptaena rugosoides" = Leptaena (Leptaena) rugosoides1, "Kurnamena taxilla" = Kurnamena taxilla, "Leptaena taxilla" = Kurnamena taxilla1, Kurnamena acuta, Astamena inaequalis
Leptaena alliku1 Oraspold 1956
"Leptaena rugosoides" = Leptaena (Leptaena) rugosoides1 Oraspold 1956
"Kurnamena taxilla" = Kurnamena taxilla Oraspold 1965
"Leptaena taxilla" = Kurnamena taxilla1 Oraspold 1965
Kurnamena acuta Roomusoks 2004
Astamena inaequalis Roomusoks 1989
 Billingsellida - Gonambonitidae
Estlandia hispida3 Zuykov and Hints 2002