Aluvere, lower Kahula Fm. (Ordovician of Estonia)

Where: Lääne-Viru, Estonia (59.4° N, 26.4° E: paleocoordinates 30.9° S, 0.3° W)

When: Kahula Formation, Johvi (457.5 - 449.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: A. Roomusoks. 2004. Ordovician strophomenoid brachiopods of northern Estonia. Fossilia Baltica 3:1-150 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 168408: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 22.04.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
Toxochasmops (Schmidtops) proavus2 Roomusoks 1998 trilobite
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
"Leptaena rugosoides" = Leptaena (Leptaena) rugosoides1, "Leptaena taxilla" = Kurnamena taxilla1, Astamena inaequalis
"Leptaena rugosoides" = Leptaena (Leptaena) rugosoides1 Oraspold 1956
"Leptaena taxilla" = Kurnamena taxilla1 Oraspold 1965
Astamena inaequalis Roomusoks 1989
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
Platystrophia dentata1 Pander 1830
Platystrophia dentata dentatoides
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Hesperorthis rae1 Oraspold 1956