Paluküla, Adila Fm. (Ordovician of Estonia)

Where: Hiiu, Estonia (59.0° N, 22.8° E: paleocoordinates 28.8° S, 2.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Adila Formation, Pirgu (449.5 - 445.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

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

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 168471: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 23.04.2015, edited by Barbara Seuss

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Cephalopoda
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Cephalopoda indet.2 Cuvier 1797
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Hebertella estonica1 Rõõmusoks 1964
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Similoleptaena planitia Roomusoks 2004
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata - Halloporidae
Diplotrypa densitabulata2
associated with Rowewella sp.
Anthozoa
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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