Tapa (Ordovician of Estonia)

Where: Lääne-Viru, Estonia (59.3° N, 26.0° E: paleocoordinates 28.5° S, 0.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Vormsi (452.0 - 445.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: T. N. Alikhova. 1953. Rukovodyashchaya fauna brakhiopod ordovikskikh otlozhenij severo-sapadnoy chasti russkoj platformy. Trudy Vsesoyusnogo Nauchno-Issledovatel'skogo Geologicheskogo Instituta (VSEBEI) Ministerstva Geologichestii i Okhrany NEDR 1-127 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 173975: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 22.10.2015

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Streptelasma (Kenophyllum) siluricum1 Dybowski 1873 horn coral
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Catenipora tapaensis2 Sokolov 1951 tabulate coral
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
"Dalmanella estona" = Isorthis estona
"Dalmanella estona" = Isorthis estona Alichova 1953