Riekstini 15 borehole, 846.15-860.4 m, Kuldiga Fm. (Ordovician of Latvia)

Where: Latvia (56.2° N, 21.2° E: paleocoordinates 30.1° S, 1.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Edole Member (Kuldiga Formation), Porkuni (445.6 - 443.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: core

Primary reference: L. Hints and D. A. T. Harper. 2015. The Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) brachiopod fauna of the East Baltic: Taxonomy of the key species. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60(2):395-420 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 173448: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 25.09.2015, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptestiidae
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Eostropheodonta hirnantensis M'Coy 1851
Eostropheodonta hirnantensis hirnantensis
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Hindella cf. incipiens2 Williams 1951
Hindella cf. crassa incipens
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
 Orthida - Draboviidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
"Mucronaspis mucronata" = Mucronaspis (Songxites) mucronatus1
"Mucronaspis mucronata" = Mucronaspis (Songxites) mucronatus1 Brongniart 1822 trilobite