Stirnas-18 911.8 - 901.7 m (Ordovician of Latvia)

Also known as Stirnas-18 borehole, 901.7-911.8 m, Kuldiga Fm.

Where: Latvia (56.9° N, 21.6° E: paleocoordinates 29.3° S, 1.7° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Normalograptus extraordinarius graptolite zone, Edole Member (Kuldiga Formation), Porkuni (445.6 - 443.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone and marl

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 173688: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 09.10.2015, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Cliftonia psittacina Wahlenberg 1821
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
"Mucronaspis mucronata" = Mucronaspis (Songxites) mucronatus
"Mucronaspis mucronata" = Mucronaspis (Songxites) mucronatus Brongniart 1822 trilobite