Kõrgessaare, Kõrgessaare Fm. (Ordovician of Estonia)

Also known as Hohenholm

Where: Hiiu, Estonia (59.0° N, 22.3° E: paleocoordinates 29.4° S, 2.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kõrgessaare Formation, Vormsi (449.9 - 449.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified 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 168474: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 23.04.2015, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptestiidae
Sampo hiiuensis1 Opik 1933
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Thaerodonta moelsi" = Eoplectodonta moelsi2
"Thaerodonta moelsi" = Eoplectodonta moelsi2 Rõõmusoks 1981
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
"Bekkeromena vormsina" = Kiaeromena (Bekkeromena) vormsina, "Similoleptaena paucirugata" = Leptaena paucirugata, Harjumena sp.3
"Bekkeromena vormsina" = Kiaeromena (Bekkeromena) vormsina Roomusoks 2004
"Similoleptaena paucirugata" = Leptaena paucirugata Roomusoks 1989
Harjumena sp.3 Roomusoks 1993
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Saxbyonia fluctuosa Roomusoks 2004
Leigerina hiiuensis Roomusoks 2004
 Billingsellida - Clitambonitidae
Vellamo verneuilii4 Eichwald 1843