Körgessaare (Ordovician of Estonia)

Also known as Locality V5; Hiiumaa Island; Dagö; Dago

Where: Hiiu, Estonia (59.0° N, 22.5° E: paleocoordinates 29.4° S, 2.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tanuchitina bergstroemi other zone, Kõrgessaare Formation, Vormsi (449.9 - 449.5 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)

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 87308: 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

Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Draboviidae
Pionodema costata1 Hints 1975
 Orthida - Linoporellidae
Laticrura rostrata1 Hints 1975
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Paucicrura robusta1 Hints 1975
 Orthida - Orthidae
Sulevorthis lyckholmiensis3 Wysogorski 1900
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Dawsonoceratidae
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Bucania "sp. B"2 Hall 1847 snail
Bucania radiata2 d'Eichwald 1856 snail
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Lophospira lyckholmiensis5 Teichert 1932 snail
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
Valdariops eichwaldi4 Schmidt 1881 trilobite