Lüganuse (Ordovician of Estonia)

Where: Estonia (59.4° N, 26.0° E: paleocoordinates 36.6° S, 2.0° W)

When: Napa Formation, Kunda (469.2 - 464.3 Ma)

• Given as Kunda, but other sources put this in Aseri; most recent sources (Hints et al. 2014) make it Upper Kunda again. (I did have it as Cyathochitina sebyensis zone, but that is Kandle formation; Napa now is a distinct unit.)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: ooidal limestone

• oolitic limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Petersell, L.

• https://sarv.gi.ee/git/specimen.php?id=55173

Primary reference: M. Rubel. 1961. Brakhiopody nadsemejstv Orthacea, Dalmanellacea i Syntrophiacea iz nizhnego ordovika Pribaltiki [Lower Ordovician brachiopods of the superfamilies Orthacea, Dalmanellacea and Syntrophiacea of the Eastern Baltic]. Eesti NSV Teaduste Akadeemia Geoloogia Instituudi Uurimused 6:141-224 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 173497: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 30.09.2015

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Orthidae