Keila, Kahula Fm, Pääsküla Mmb, Tuula-1071, 17-18m (Ordovician of Estonia)

Where: Estonia (59.3° N, 27.5° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 25.4° S, 57.7° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pääsküla Member (Kahula Formation), Katian (453.0 - 445.2 Ma)

• Early Katian

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; marl and limestone

• cyclic succession of marl and homogenous micritic peloidal (silt size) limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. Kröger, L. Hints, and O. Lehnert. 2014. Age, facies, and geometry of the Sandbian/Katian (Upper Ordovician) pelmatozoan-bryozoan-receptaculitid reefs of the Vasalemma Formation, northern Estonia. Facies [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 164266: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 27.11.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
"Platystrophia ex gr. lynx" = Neoplatystrophia lynx
"Platystrophia ex gr. lynx" = Neoplatystrophia lynx Eichwald 1830
 Orthida - Harknessellidae
Horderleyella sp. Bancroft 1928