Vohilaid, (Hiiummaa Island), Adila Fm (Ordovician of Estonia)

Where: Hiiumaa, Estonia (58.9° N, 23.0° E: paleocoordinates 28.8° S, 1.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Dicellograptus anceps graptolite zone, Adila Formation, Pirgu (449.5 - 445.2 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

• normal marine, shallow shelf
• Formation characterized by nodular limestone with marl intercalations

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: L. Hints. 1975. Ordovician brachiopods Enteletacea of the east baltic area. Eesti NSV Teaduste Akadeemia Geoloogia Institut 1-119 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 161286: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 04.09.2014, edited by Pete Wagner and Barbara Seuss

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Tentaculita
 Cornulitida - Cornulitidae
Cornulites sp.2 Schlotheim 1820
associated with Protoheliolites norvegicus
Cephalopoda
  -
Cephalopoda indet.2 Cuvier 1797
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Phanerotrematidae
"Brachytomaria plicifera" = Brachytomaria baltica3
"Brachytomaria plicifera" = Brachytomaria baltica3 Murchison et al. 1845 snail
Based on material J. Ebbestad showed me in April 2002.
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Elsaella bekkeri Rosenstein 1943
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Similoleptaena pertenuis1 Roomusoks 2004
Similoleptaena planitia1 Roomusoks 2004
 Strophomenida - Furcitellidae
Luhaia vardi1 Roomusoks 1956
Anthozoa
  -
Anthozoa indet.2 Ehrenberg 1834
massive, with bulbous or domical shapes commonly encrusting on larger cephalopods or gastropods; almost all the corals with fine structures have Trypanites sp. borings
 Heliolitida - Proheliolitidae
Protoheliolites norvegicus2 tabulate coral
associated with Cornulites sp.