Nyby quarry, F1c stage (Ordovician of Estonia)

Also known as Niibi

Where: Lääne, Estonia (59.0° N, 23.7° E: paleocoordinates 28.6° S, 1.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Pirgu (449.5 - 445.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: H. Nestor. 1960. Plumatalinia - A New Genus of Stromatoporoidea from the Upper Ordovician of the Estonian S.S.R. Proc. of the Academy of Sciences of the Estonian SSR. Ser. Tech. and Phys.-Mat. Sciences 9(3):225-228 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger/S. Bruning]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 174289: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 09.11.2015

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Catenipora tapaensis1 Sokolov 1951 tabulate coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Labechiida - Stromatoceriidae
"Stromatocerium canadense" = Cystistroma canadense2
"Stromatocerium canadense" = Cystistroma canadense2 Nicholson and Murie 1878 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
Clathrodictyon microundulatum2 Nestor 1964 stromatoporoid sponge
 Actinostromatida - Plumataliniidae
Plumatalinia ferax Nestor 1960 stromatoporoid sponge