Mäekalda, Mäeküla Member (Ordovician of Estonia)

Where: Harju, Estonia (59.4° N, 24.8° E: paleocoordinates 39.8° S, 5.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Mäeküla Member (Leetse Formation), Billingen (474.8 - 471.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic sandstone and claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: H. Pärnaste. 2006. The early Ordovician trilobite distribution and zonation of the East Baltic. Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Geology 55(2):109-127 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 191968: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 26.02.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Encrinuroides regularis
Encrinuroides regularis Pärnaste 2006 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Krattaspis viridatus
 Phacopida - Pliomeridae
Evropeites lamanskii
 Corynexochida - Panderiidae
Ottenbyaspis sp.
Ottenbyaspis sp. Bruton 1968 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Proasaphus primus, "Niobella sp." = Niobe (Niobella), "Paramegistaspis leuchtenbergi" = Megistaspis (Paramegistaspis) leuchtenbergi
Proasaphus primus Balashova 1966 trilobite
"Niobella sp." = Niobe (Niobella) Reed 1931 trilobite
"Paramegistaspis leuchtenbergi" = Megistaspis (Paramegistaspis) leuchtenbergi Lamansky 1905 trilobite