Irevik (Silurian of Sweden)

Where: Gotland, Sweden (57.8° N, 18.6° E: paleocoordinates 21.3° S, 2.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kockelella ranuliformis conodont zone, Högklint Formation, Sheinwoodian (433.4 - 430.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• Associated with a typical marine fauna consisting of brachiopods, bryozoans, crinoids, ostracodes, etc.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the SM

• Repository: Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet Stockholm (SRM)

Primary reference: O. A. Hoel. 2005. Silurian Leptaeninae (Brachiopoda) from Gotland, Sweden. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 79(2):263-284 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 169877: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 02.06.2015

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818