Maëkalda section. Mä95-05A (Ordovician of Estonia)

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Prioniodus elegans conodont zone, Maëkula Member (Leetse Formation), Billingen (474.8 - 471.1 Ma)

• Very base of O. evae zone.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, silty sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: V. Viira, A. Löfgren, S. Mägi and J. Wickström. 2001. An Early to Middle Ordovician succession of conodont faunas at Mäekalda, northern Estonia. Geological Magazine 138(66):99-718 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203646: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 21.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Prioniodontida - Strachanognathidae
 Prioniodontida - Balognathidae
 Prioniodontida - Oistodontidae
Oistodus lanceolatus Pander 1856 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Acodontidae
"Drepanodus arcuatus" = Acodus similaris
"Drepanodus arcuatus" = Acodus similaris Rhodes 1955 conodont
  -
 Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Paltodus subaequalis Pander 1856 conodont
Drepanoistodus forceps Lindström 1955 conodont
Paroistodus proteus Lindström 1955 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Protopanderodontidae
"Scolopodus rex" = Scolopodus striatus Pander 1856 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Oneotodontidae
 Proconodontida - Cordylodontidae
Cordylodus spp. Pander 1856 conodont