Paope (Ordovician of Estonia)

Also known as Locality V3; Hiiumaa Island; Dagö, Dago, Paopa

Where: Hiiu, Estonia (58.9° N, 22.4° E: paleocoordinates 29.4° S, 2.2° 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)

•"Lyckholm Limestone, F1", in Bassler

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 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 87306: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 14.03.2009, edited by Björn Kröger and Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Catenipora tapaensis6 Sokolov 1951 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Palaeofavosites schmidti5 Sokolov 1951 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Rectigrewingkia anthelion4 Dybowski 1873 horn coral
Kenophyllum subcylindricum4 Kaljo 1961 horn coral
Streptelasma (Kenophyllum) subcylindricum
Streptelasma (Kenophyllum) siluricum3 Dybowski 1873 horn coral
"Brachyelasma hiumica" = Streptelasma hiumica9 Reiman 1958 horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
Tryplasma antiqua9 Reiman 1958 horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Palaeocyclidae
Rhabdocyclus aequispinatus2 Reiman 1954 horn coral
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
Toxochasmops (Toxochasmops) vormsiensis11 Roomusoks 1998 trilobite
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptestiidae
Sampo hiiuensis7 Opik 1933
Sampo hiiuensis nasuta
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Thaerodonta convexa" = Plectodonta convexa10
"Thaerodonta convexa" = Plectodonta convexa10 Rõõmusoks 1981
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
"Bekkeromena vormsina" = Kiaeromena (Bekkeromena) vormsina12, "Similoleptaena paucirugata" = Leptaena paucirugata12
"Bekkeromena vormsina" = Kiaeromena (Bekkeromena) vormsina12 Roomusoks 2004
"Similoleptaena paucirugata" = Leptaena paucirugata12 Roomusoks 1989
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
Platystrophia saxbyensis8 Oraspold 1959
 Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata - Halloporidae
Diplotrypa petropolitana1 Nicholson 1879
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Dawsonoceratidae
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
 Orthocerida - Proteoceratidae
Codonophyllum
  - Codonophyllidae