Körgessaare: Vormsi, Estonia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Dawsonoceratidae
Palaeodawsonocerina senckenbergi (Teichert 1930)
3 individuals
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Bucania informal sp. B Hall 1847
Isakar and Ebbestad 2000
Bucania radiata (d'Eichwald 1856)
Isakar and Ebbestad 2000
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
Worthenia aista Koken 1896
Koken and Perner 1925
    = Lophospira lyckholmiensis Teichert 1932
Teichert 1932
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Orthidae
Sulevorthis lyckholmiensis (Wysogorski 1900)
Jaanusson and Bassett 1993 9 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Paucicrura robusta Hints 1975
Hints 1975 19 specimens
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Draboviidae
Pionodema costata Hints 1975
Hints 1975 1 specimen
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Linoporellidae
Laticrura rostrata Hints 1975
Hints 1975 26 specimens
Trilobita - Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
Valdariops eichwaldi (Schmidt 1881)
Rõõmusoks 2000
see common names

Geography
Country:Estonia State/province:Hiiu County:Körgessaare
Coordinates: 59.0° North, 22.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.4° South, 2.2° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Stage:Katian 10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 5
Key time interval:Vormsi Other zone: Tanuchitina bergstroemi
Age range of interval:450.00000 - 449.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kõrgessaare
Stratigraphy comments: All Vormsian localities on Hiiumaa Island are within the Kõrgessaare Fm. (see fig. 55 in Raukas & Teedumäe [eds.] 1997, Geology and Mineral Resources of Estonia, html version, http://sarv.gi.ee/geology);
The Vormsi Regional Stage is formerly known as the middle part of the "Lyckholm'sche Schicht" (Raukas & Teedumäe [eds.] 1997)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: The Kõrgessaare Fm. is composed of "bioclastic limestones" (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:body,cast
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Locality V5; Hiiumaa Island; Dagö; Dago
Database number:87308
Authorizer:B. Kröger, P. Wagner Enterer:T. Liebrecht, P. Wagner, B. Kröger
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-03-14 13:11:02 Last modified:2015-04-08 10:53:37
Access level:the public Released:2009-03-14 13:11:02
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:

52400 L. Hints. 1975. Ordovician brachiopods Enteletacea of the east baltic area. Eesti NSV Teaduste Akadeemia Geoloogia Institut 1-119 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]
16068 M. Isakar and J.O.R. Ebbestad. 2000. Bucania (Gastropoda) from the Ordovician of Estonia. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 74(1-2):51-68 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
52362 V. Jaanusson and M. G. Bassett. 1993. Orthambonites and related Ordovician brachiopod genera. Palaeontology 36(1):21-63 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]
11503 E. Koken and J. Perner. 1925. Die Gastropoden des baltischen Untersilurs 1-324 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
55596 A. Rõõmusoks. 2000. The new trilobite genus Valdariops from the Harju Series (Upper Ordovician) of Estonia. Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Geology 49:28-42 [M. Hopkins/M. Hopkins]
16377 C. Teichert. 1932. Über einege Gastropodengattungen des Ordoviziums. Forshritte de Geologie und Palaeotologie 11(35):260-277 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]