Eurypterid-Associated Biota of the Rootsikula Horizon, Saaremaa, Estonia: Rootsikula, Estonia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Eurypterida - Strobilopteridae
Eurypterida - Eurypteridae
Eurypterida - Erieopteridae
Eurypterida - Pterygotidae
Eurypterida - Carcinosomatidae
Carcinosoma sp. Claypole 1890
Eurypterida - Mixopteridae
Eurypterida - Adelophthalmidae
Thelodonti - Thelodontiformes
Petromyzontida - Cephalaspidiformes
osteostracans
see common names

Geography
Country:Estonia
Coordinates: 58.4° North, 22.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.0° North, 44.2° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Silurian Epoch: Wenlock
Stage: Homerian 10 m.y. bin: Silurian 2
*Local age/stage:Rootsikula
Key time interval: Rootsikula
Age range of interval: 429.2 - 427.4 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Rootsikula
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Rootsikula Horizon. Plotnick gives international age as Ludlovian (evidently following Kaljo 1970, PBDB ref. 7443), but more recent work (e.g. Kaljo and Klaamann, 1982, PBDB ref. 7448) correlates Rootsikula with later Wenlock, and also refers to "Rootsikula Formation" as well as "Rootsikula Horizon".
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:desiccation cracks,burrows "limestone"
Secondary lithology:desiccation cracks,burrows dolomite
Lithology description: "Limestone and dolomite with mudcracks, discontinuity surfaces, ripple marks and worm tracks."
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: "Kaljo (1970, 1972) considers this to be a nearshore, quiet water (lagoonal) community. BA 1."
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:26922
Authorizer:M. Foote Enterer:M. Foote
Modifier:M. Foote Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-11-08 09:46:16 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2002-11-08 09:46:16
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
4261. R. E. Plotnick. 1999. Habitat of Llandoverian-Lochkovian eurypterids. In A. J. Boucot, J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities - a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 106-136 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]