Piltene-30 borehole, 937.6-945.0 m, Kuldiga Fm. (Ordovician of Latvia)

Where: Latvia (57.2° N, 21.6° E: paleocoordinates 29.1° S, 1.8° 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

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 173491: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 30.09.2015, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Mucronaspis sp.2 Destombes 1963 trilobite
"Mucronaspis mucronata" = Mucronaspis (Songxites) mucronatus2 Brongniart 1822 trilobite
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Hindella cf. incipiens1 Williams 1951
Hindella cf. crassa incipens
 Orthida - Draboviidae