Vilcini 19 borehole, 894.7-909.6 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 - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella testudinaria (Dalman 1828)
original and current combination Orthis testudinaria
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Draboviidae
Drabovia sp. Havlicek 1950
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
see common names

Geography
Country:Latvia
Coordinates: 56.8° North, 21.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.4° South, 1.6° West
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
Local section:Vilcini-19 Local bed:894.7-909.6 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:173461
Authorizer:B. Kröger Enterer:B. Kröger
Modifier:B. Kröger Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-09-28 02:39:53 Last modified:2015-09-28 02:42:55
Access level:the public Released:2015-09-28 02:39:53
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]