Osmussaar Island (Ordovician to of Estonia)

Where: Laane, Estonia (59.3° N, 23.4° E: paleocoordinates 35.3° S, 3.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lasnamagi to Lasnamagi (463.5 - 460.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J. F. Bockelie. 1979. Taxonomy, Functional Morphology and Palaeoecology of the Ordovician Cystoid Family Hemicosmitidae. Palaeontology 22(2):363-406 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 168952: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 04.05.2015

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Taxonomic list

Rhombifera
 Hemicosmitoida - Hemicosmitidae
Hemicosmites extraneus Eichwald 1840