Lava River, near Vassilkovo, Mäeküla Member, Leetse Fm. (Ordovician of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (59.9° N, 31.6° E: paleocoordinates 39.9° S, 0.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Mäeküla Member (Leetse Formation), Billingen (474.8 - 471.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: L. E. Popov, E. V. A. Egerquist, and M. A. Zuykov. 2005. Ordovician (Arenig-Caradoc) syntrophiidine brachiopods from the east Baltic region. Palaeontology 48(4):739-761 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 169218: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 11.05.2015

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Taxonomic list

Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Trilobita
 Proetida - Telephinidae
Carolinites ? sp. Kobayashi 1940 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Panderiidae
Ottenbyaspis aff. oriens Moberg and Segerberg 1906 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Cybele sp. Lovén 1845 trilobite
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Globampyx ? popovkiensis Balashova 1966 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Remopleurides ? sp. Portlock 1843 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Popovkiaspis pogrebowi Lamansky 1905 trilobite
Proasaphus primus Balashova 1966 trilobite
Megalaspides dalecarlicus Holm 1882 trilobite
"Megalaspides aff. norvegica" = Megistaspis (Paramegistaspis) norvegica Tjernvik 1956 trilobite
"Niobella imparilimbata" = Niobe (Niobella) imparilimbata Bohlin 1955 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Porambonitidae
Eoporambonites latus Pander 1830
"between 1Æ45 and 1Æ65 m above the ‘Dictyonema’ Shale of the Koporye Formation.", Popov et al. (2005)