Lehtse, Soodla River (Ordovician of Estonia)

Also known as Locality V1

Where: Lääne-Viru, Estonia (59.3° N, 25.8° E: paleocoordinates 28.5° S, 0.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kõrgessaare Formation, Vormsi (452.0 - 445.6 Ma)

• Given that the position of the Lehtse Locality is in northern Estonia, it is most likely within the Kõrgessaare Fm. (see fig. 55 in Raukas & Teedumäe [eds.] 1997, Geology and Mineral Resources of Estonia, html version, http://sarv.gi.ee/geology)

•The Vormsi Regional Stage is formerly known as the middle part of the "Lyckholm'sche Schicht" (Raukas & Teedumäe [eds.] 1997)

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone

• "North Estonian Confacies Belt at the northern flank of the Livonian Tongue" (Kröger & Isakar, 2006)
• The Kõrgessaare Fm. is composed of "bioclastic limestones" (Raukas & Teedumäe [eds.] 1997, Geology and Mineral Resources of Estonia, html version, http://sarv.gi.ee/geology)

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 87300: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 14.03.2009, edited by Björn Kröger

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Paucicrura robusta Hints 1975