Riekstini 15 borehole, 846.15-860.4 m, Kuldiga Fm.: Porkuni, Latvia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Trilobita - Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Mucronaspis mucronata (Brongniart 1822)
Hints et al. 2012
recombined as Mucronaspis (Songxites) mucronatus
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Meristellidae
Hindella cf. crassa (Sowerby 1839)
Hindella cf. crassa incipens
    = Hindella cf. incipiens Williams 1951
Wagner 2020
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella testudinaria (Dalman 1828)
original and current combination Orthis testudinaria
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Draboviidae
Hirnantia sagittifera (McCoy 1851)
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Plectothyrella crassicosta (Dalman 1828)
Atrypa crassicostis
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
Eostropheodonta cf. parvicostellata Rong 1984
Eostropheodonta hirnantensis (M'Coy 1851)
Eostropheodonta hirnantensis hirnantensis
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Leptestiidae
Leangella (Leangella) cf. scissa (Davidson 1871)
recombined as Leangella scissa
see common names

Geography
Country:Latvia
Coordinates: 56.2° North, 21.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.1° South, 1.6° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:Hirnantian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
Key time interval:Porkuni
Age range of interval:445.20000 - 443.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kuldiga Member:Edole
Local section:Riekstini-15 Local bed:846.15-860.4 m
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Feeding/predation traces:drill holes
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Collection methods:core
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:173448
Authorizer:B. Kröger, P. Wagner Enterer:B. Kröger, P. Wagner
Modifier:B. Kröger Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-09-25 04:40:12 Last modified:2018-05-08 05:47:18
Access level:the public Released:2015-09-25 04:40:12
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

55395. L. Hints and D. A. T. Harper. 2015. The Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) brachiopod fauna of the East Baltic: Taxonomy of the key species. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60(2):395-420 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

48882 L. Hints, H. Pärnaste, and L.-I. Gailite. 2012. Hirnantia sagittifera (Brachiopoda) and Mucronaspis mucronata s.l. (Trilobita) in the Upper Ordovician of the East Baltic: taxonomy and distribution. Estonian Journal of Earth Science 61(2):65-81 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/B. Kröger]
65064 P. Wagner. 2020. Subspecies kluges: a pointless taxonomic database to create species opinions for subspecies that then will be over-ruled and allow subspecies occurrences to be recognized as the subspecies rather than the parent species. [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]