Odulemma (Ordovician of Estonia)

Also known as Locality N2, Odulema, Oddalem

Where: Harju, Estonia (59.1° N, 24.4° E: paleocoordinates 29.9° S, 1.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pleurograptus linearis graptolite zone, Saunja Formation, Nabala (450.5 - 449.9 Ma)

• The quarry near Odulemma is in the Saunja Formation according to Malinky (2006, Paläont. Z. 80(1));

•The Nabala Regional Stage is formerly known as the lower part of the "Lyckholm'sche Schicht" (Raukas & Teedumäe [eds.] 1997, Geology and Mineral Resources of Estonia, html version, http://sarv.gi.ee/geology)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified lime mudstone

• "North Estonian Confacies Belt at the northern flank of the Livonian Tongue" (Kröger & Isakar, 2006)
• The Saunja Fm. comprises "up-to-28-m-thick micritic limestones" being "lithologically uniform and occur all over Estonia" (Raukas & Teedumäe [eds.] 1997, Geology and Mineral Resources of Estonia, html version, http://sarv.gi.ee/geology)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: B. Kröger and M. Isakar. 2006. Revision of annulated orthoceridan cephalopods of the Baltoscandic Ordovician. Fossil Record 9(1):137-163 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87297: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 14.03.2009, edited by Pete Wagner and Björn Kröger

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
"Worthenia borkholmiensis" = Ruedemannia borkholmiensis1
"Worthenia borkholmiensis" = Ruedemannia borkholmiensis1 Koken 1896 snail
 Murchisoniina - Eotomariidae
"Raphistoma numismale" = Liospira numismale1
"Raphistoma numismale" = Liospira numismale1 Koken 1896 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Latitaenia kirnaensis1 Koken and Perner 1925 snail
 Murchisoniina - Phanerotrematidae
"Eotomaria notlingi" = Brachytomaria semele1
"Eotomaria notlingi" = Brachytomaria semele1 Hall 1861 snail
 Murchisoniina - Hormotomidae
"Murchisonia insignis" = Hormotoma insignis1
"Murchisonia insignis" = Hormotoma insignis1 d'Eichwald 1860 snail
 Murchisoniina - Subulitidae
Subulites subula1 Koken 1896 snail
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophomenidae
Holtedahlina subtilis3 Roomusoks 2004
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Harjumena schmidti3 Gagel and Holtedahl 1916
Similoleptaena crassorugata3 Roomusoks 2004
Bekkeromena ilmari3 Roomusoks 2004
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
Valdariops aliquantulus2 Rõõmusoks 2000 trilobite