Mõnuste (Kirna), Saunja Fm.: Nabala, Estonia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda
- Orthocerida
- Dawsonoceratidae
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Dawsonoceras sp.
Hyatt 1884
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1 individual | ||||||
Cephalopoda
- Orthocerida
- Orthoceratidae
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Striatocycloceras obliquum
(d'Eichwald 1860)
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2 individuals | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Subulitidae
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Subulites subula
Koken 1896
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Koken and Perner 1925 | ||||||
Subulites (Fusispira) ovalis
Koken 1897
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Koken and Perner 1925 | ||||||
recombined as Fusispira ovalis | |||||||
Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Hormotomidae
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Murchisonia insignis
d'Eichwald 1860
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Koken and Perner 1925 | ||||||
recombined as Hormotoma insignis | |||||||
Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Lophospiridae
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Ectomaria kirnaensis n. sp.
Koken 1897
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Koken 1896 | ||||||
synonym of Ectomaria nieszkowskii | |||||||
Worthenia turbinoides
Koken and Perner 1925
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Koken and Perner 1925 | ||||||
synonym of Loxoplocus sedgwicki | |||||||
Worthenia aista
Koken 1896
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Koken and Perner 1925 | ||||||
synonym of Ruedemannia lirata | |||||||
Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Gosseletinidae
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Latitaenia kirnaensis
Koken and Perner 1925
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Koken and Perner 1925 | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Eotomariidae
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Raphistoma numismale
(Koken 1896)
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Koken and Perner 1925 | ||||||
recombined as Liospira numismale | |||||||
Eotomaria chamaeconus
(Koken 1896)
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Koken 1897 | ||||||
recombined as Pseudocryptaulina chamaeconus | |||||||
Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Phanerotrematidae
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Brachytomaria nodulosa n. sp.
Koken 1896
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Koken 1897 | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Euomphalina
- Helicotomidae
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Palaeomphalus gradata
(Koken 1896)
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Koken and Perner 1925 | ||||||
original and current combination Euomphalus gradatus | |||||||
Gastropoda
- Euomphalina
- Platyceratidae
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Eunema rupestre
(d'Eichwald 1856)
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Koken and Perner 1925 | ||||||
recombined as Cyclonema rupestre | |||||||
Gastropoda
- Euomphalina
- Macluritidae
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Maclurea neritoides
d'Eichwald 1860
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d'Eichwald 1860 | ||||||
recombined as Maclurites neritoides | |||||||
Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Rafinesquinidae
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Harjumena schmidti
(Gagel and Holtedahl 1916)
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Roomusoks 2004 | 1 specimen | |||||
Rafinesquina schmidti | |||||||
Bekkeromena ilmari
Roomusoks 2004
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Roomusoks 2004 | 9 specimens | |||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Estonia | State/province: | Harju | County: | Kernu |
Coordinates: | 59.1° North, 24.5° East (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 29.9° South, 1.1° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
Stage: | middle Late Ordovician | 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 4 |
Key time interval: | Nabala | ||
Age range of interval: | 452.00000 - 449.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Saunja | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: The quarry at Mõnuste comprises the type section of the Saunja Formation (see caption of fig. 53 in Raukas & Teedumäe [eds.] 1997, Geology and Mineral Resources of Estonia, html version, http://sarv.gi.ee/geology);
The Nabala Regional Stage is formerly known as the lower part of the "Lyckholm'sche Schicht" (Raukas & Teedumäe [eds.] 1997) |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified lime mudstone |
Lithology description: The Saunja Fm. comprises "up-to-28-m-thick micritic limestones" being "lithologically uniform and occur all over Estonia" (Raukas & Teedumäe [eds.] 1997, Geology and Mineral Resources of Estonia, html version, http://sarv.gi.ee/geology) | |
Environment: | open shallow subtidal |
Geology comments: "North Estonian Confacies Belt at the northern flank of the Livonian Tongue" (Kröger & Isakar, 2006) |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | cast |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:Koken's snail data reflects "Kirna" from this interval (PJW). |
Metadata
Also known as: | Locality N3, Monuste | ||
Database number: | 87298 | ||
Authorizer: | B. Kröger, P. Wagner | Enterer: | T. Liebrecht, P. Wagner, B. Kröger |
Modifier: | B. Kröger | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2009-03-14 07:53:12 | Last modified: | 2015-05-08 04:09:06 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-03-14 07:53:12 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
29316. | 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] |
Secondary references:
15846 | E. d'Eichwald. 1860. Lethaea rossica ou paléontologie de la Russie. Premier Volume. Seconde section de l'ancienne Période 1-1657 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] | |
16116 | E. Koken. 1896. Die Leitfossilien. Ein Handbuch für den Unterricht und für das Bestimmen von Versteinerungen 1-848 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] | |
13884 | E. Koken. 1897. Die Gastropoden des baltischen Untersilurs. Bulletin de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St. Pétersburg 7(2):97-214 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] | |
11503 | E. Koken and J. Perner. 1925. Die Gastropoden des baltischen Untersilurs 1-324 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] | |
55097 | A. Roomusoks. 2004. Ordovician strophomenoid brachiopods of northern Estonia. Fossilia Baltica 3:1-150 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger/P. Wagner] |