Saku Manor, Vasalemma Fm. (Ordovician of Estonia)

Also known as Saku mõisa, Gut Sack

Where: Estonia (59.3° N, 24.6° E: paleocoordinates 32.9° S, 1.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Vasalemma Formation, Keila (453.9 - 453.0 Ma)

• "Wassalem Beds", in Bassler (1911)

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: R. S. Bassler. 1911. The early Paleozoic Bryozoa of the Baltic Provinces. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 77:1-375 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 167557: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 24.03.2015

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Taxonomic list

Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Amplexoporidae
Anaphragma mirabile Ulrich and Bassler 1904
Anaphragma mirabile cognata
 Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
Dittopora colliculata Eichwald 1856
Monticulipora arborea Ulrich 1893
Monticulipora arborea bispinulata
 Cryptostomata - Ptilodictyidae
 Trepostomata - Halloporidae
Diplotrypa petropolitana Nicholson 1879