Törremäe (Ordovician of Estonia)

Where: Estonia (59.4° N, 26.3° E: paleocoordinates 31.4° S, 0.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Vasalemma Formation, Oandu (453.0 - 451.8 Ma)

• Upper Ordovician, lower part of the Katian Stage, Oandu Regional Stage; PJW: This should be Vasalemma formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

• "tropical mud mounds"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. Männil

Primary reference: C. R. C. Paul and S. V. Rozhnov. 2016. Revision of Scoliocystis (Rhombifera: Echinoencrinitidae) and related cystoid genera. Paleontological Journal 50(3):255-275 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 193691: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 02.06.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

 Rhombifera - Callocystitidae
Maennilocystis heckeri n. gen. n. sp.
Maennilocystis heckeri n. gen. n. sp. Paul and Rozhnov 2016