Suhkrumägi road cut, Tallinn, O. evae zone, Billingen Stage (Ordovician of Estonia)

Where: Estonia (59.4° N, 24.7° E: paleocoordinates 39.8° S, 5.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Oepikodus evae conodont zone, Päite Member (Toila Formation), Billingen (474.8 - 471.1 Ma)

• Billingen Stage; lower Päite Member, Oepicodus evae conodont zone. JA: originally entered as Arenigian, but the evae zone is Floian (see Männik and Viira 2012). PJW: Päite belons to the Toila formation. Billingen is the local stage name.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified claystone and lithified limestone

• a green clay layer within limestone beds, of which the lower one is greyish green and rich in glauconite grains

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Egerquist. 2003. New brachiopods from the Lower-Middle Ordovician (Billingen-Volkhov stages) of the East Baltic. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48(1):31-38 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62342: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Paurorthidae
Paurorthis sp.
Paurorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
 Orthida - Orthidae
Leoniorthis robusta
 Orthida - Productorthidae
Panderina sp.
Panderina sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
 Orthida - Orthidiellidae
Orthidium sp.
Orthidium sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
 Orthida - Ranorthidae
? Ranorthis trivia
? Ranorthis trivia Rubel 1961
Strophomenata
 Billingsellida - Polytoechiidae
Antigonambonites sp.