Harku quarry (Ordovician of Estonia)

Where: Harju, Estonia (59.4° N, 24.6° E: paleocoordinates 31.6° S, 1.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Viivikonna Formation, Kukruse (458.0 - 456.8 Ma)

• PJW: Kurkruse age material from Harku is from the Viivikonna formation. (Which member is unclear.)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: O. Tinn. 1998. The Ordovician Clitambonitidine Brachiopod Genus Vellamo in Estonia. Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences 47(3):195-216 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 169100: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 07.05.2015, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

 Glyptosphaeritida - Dactylocystidae
Estonocystis antropoffi2 Jaeckel 1918
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Strophomenata
 Billingsellida - Clitambonitidae
Vellamo parva Opik 1930
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Parallelelasmatidae
Parallelelasma kukrusensis1 Rõõmusoks 1964