Saxby, coast, Kõrgessaare Fm. (Ordovician of Estonia)
Also known as Vormsi Island; Worms; Ormsö, Ormso
Where: Lääne, Estonia (59.0° N, 23.1° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 26.5° S, 59.9° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Kõrgessaare Formation, Vormsi (449.9 - 449.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone
• The Kõrgessaare Fm. is composed of "bioclastic limestones" (Raukas & Teedumäe [eds.] 1997, Geology and Mineral Resources of Estonia, html version, http://sarv.gi.ee/geology)
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 168717: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 28.04.2015
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Taxonomic list
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| Trilobita | |
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Toxochasmops (Toxochasmops) vormsiensis Roomusoks 1998 trilobite | |
| Strophomenata | |
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Saxbyonia fluctuosa Roomusoks 2004 | |
"Similoleptaena paucirugata" = Leptaena paucirugata, "Bekkeromena vormsina" = Kiaeromena (Bekkeromena) vormsina
"Similoleptaena paucirugata" = Leptaena paucirugata Roomusoks 1989
"Bekkeromena vormsina" = Kiaeromena (Bekkeromena) vormsina Roomusoks 2004 | |