Piltene-31 borehole, 970.7-977.8 m, Kuldiga Fm.: Porkuni, Latvia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae
Tentaculites sp. von Schlotheim 1820
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Draboviidae
Hirnantia sagittifera (McCoy 1851)
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Plectothyrella crassicosta (Dalman 1828)
Atrypa crassicostis
see common names

Geography
Country:Latvia
Coordinates: 57.2° North, 21.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.1° South, 1.9° 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
Local section:Piltene-31 Local bed:970.7-977.8 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
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:173492
Authorizer:B. Kröger Enterer:B. Kröger
Modifier:B. Kröger Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2015-09-30 07:03:52 Last modified:2015-09-30 07:07:10
Access level:the public Released:2015-09-30 07:03:52
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]