Pärnu borehole (Ordovician of Estonia)

Where: Estonia (58.4° N, 24.5° E: paleocoordinates 29.6° S, 0.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• Kiipli1, Kallaste & Kiipli (2004 p. 54 f. 1b) note that this is the Kiipli1), Toivo Kallaste1) and Tarmo Kiipli formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone and marl

• micritic (aphanitic) limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: core

Primary reference: L. Hints and D. A. T. Harper. 2003. Review of the Ordovician rhynchonelliformean Brachiopoda of the East Baltic: Their distribution and biofacies. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 50:29-43 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 168968: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 04.05.2015

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Protorthida - Skenidiidae
Skenidioides sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
 Orthida - Dicoelosiidae
Dicoelosia sp. King 1850
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Isorthis sp. Kozlowski 1929
Isorthis cf. estona Alichova 1953
 Orthida - Orthidae
 Orthida - Glyptorthidae
Glyptorthis sp. Foerste 1914
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptellinidae
Leptellina sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Eoplectodonta sp. Kozlowski 1929