Where: Harju, Estonia (59.4° N, 24.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.6° S, 6.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Paroistodus proteus conodont zone, Joa Member (Leetse Formation), Hunneberg (481.1 - 474.8 Ma)
• Top of Paroistodus proteus zone.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, nodular, 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 203648: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 21.08.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Conodonta | |
Drepanoistodus cf. nowlani conodont
Paltodus deltiter conodont
Paltodus subaequalis Pander 1856 conodont
Paroistodus proteus Lindström 1955 conodont | |
? Scandodus subarcuatus conodont | |
Oelandodus elongatus conodont | |
Tripodus "sp. A", "Drepanodus arcuatus" = Acodus similaris
Tripodus "sp. A" Bradshaw 1969 conodont
"Drepanodus arcuatus" = Acodus similaris Rhodes 1955 conodont |