Maëkalda section. Mä95-03 (Ordovician of Estonia)

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 203649: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 21.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Prioniodontida - Acodontidae
Tripodus "sp. A", "Drepanodus arcuatus" = Acodus similaris
Tripodus "sp. A" Bradshaw 1969 conodont
"Drepanodus arcuatus" = Acodus similaris Rhodes 1955 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Protopanderodontidae
? Juanognathus "sp. A" Serpagli 1974 conodont
 Protopanderodontida - Drepanoistodontidae
Paroistodus proteus Lindström 1955 conodont
 Proconodontida - Cordylodontidae
Cordylodus spp. Pander 1856 conodont
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