Paluküla , Kõrgessaare Formation (Ordovician of Estonia)

Also known as Locality V2; Hiiumaa Island; Dagö; Dago

Where: Hiiu, Estonia (59.0° N, 22.8° E: paleocoordinates 29.3° S, 2.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• All Vormsian localities on Hiiumaa Island are 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)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; 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 87305: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 14.03.2009, edited by Björn Kröger

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Dawsonoceratidae
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Striatocycloceras isbergi Kröger 2013
see Kröger, 2013, p. 25 foerstei specimens synonymised with S. isbergi
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
"Similoleptaena paucirugata" = Leptaena paucirugata4, "Bekkeromena vormsina" = Kiaeromena (Bekkeromena) vormsina4
"Similoleptaena paucirugata" = Leptaena paucirugata4 Roomusoks 1989
"Bekkeromena vormsina" = Kiaeromena (Bekkeromena) vormsina4 Roomusoks 2004
 Billingsellida - Clitambonitidae
Vellamo leigeri2 Opik 1934
Vellamo symmetrica2 Opik 1934
Vellamo verneuilii5 Eichwald 1843
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Orthidae
Boreadorthis recula2 Opik 1934
Boreadorthis recula aequivalvata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Paucicrura robusta1 Hints 1975
 Orthida - Linoporellidae
Laticrura rostrata1 Hints 1975
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
Toxochasmops (Toxochasmops) vormsiensis3 Roomusoks 1998 trilobite