Where: Estonia (59.4° N, 27.2° E: paleocoordinates 31.2° S, 0.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Nemagraptus gracilis graptolite zone, Kiviõla Member (Viivikonna Formation), Kukruse (458.0 - 456.8 Ma)
• The shale in this region should be the Kiviõla member of the Viivikonna formation. The oil shales come from the lower 5 meters of the formation (Saadre 2004).
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: V. Jaanusson and M. G. Bassett. 1993. Orthambonites and related Ordovician brachiopod genera. Palaeontology 36(1):21-63 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 160501: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 23.08.2014, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Glossorthis tacens Opik 1930 | |
Platystrophia baltica7 Zuykov and Harper 2007 | |
Paucicrura navis2 Opik 1930 | |
Strophomenata | |
Actinomena orta6 Öpik 1930
"Septomena juvenilis" = Leptaena (Septomena) juvenilis6 Öpik 1930 | |
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Clitambonites squamatus4 Pahlen 1877 | |
Trilobita | |
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