Harku, Mäeküla Member (Ordovician of Estonia)

Where: Estonia (59.4° N, 24.6° E: paleocoordinates 39.9° S, 5.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Mäeküla Member (Leetse Formation), Billingen (474.8 - 471.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: H. Pärnaste. 2006. The early Ordovician trilobite distribution and zonation of the East Baltic. Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, Geology 55(2):109-127 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 191966: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 26.02.2018

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Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Panderiidae
Ottenbyaspis sp. Bruton 1968 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Globampyx ? popovkiensis Balashova 1966 trilobite
 Asaphida - Remopleurididae
Remopleurides ? sp. Portlock 1843 trilobite
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Proasaphus primus Balashova 1966 trilobite
Megalaspides spp. Brögger 1886 trilobite
"Paramegistaspis leuchtenbergi" = Megistaspis (Paramegistaspis) leuchtenbergi Lamansky 1905 trilobite
"Niobella sp." = Niobe (Niobella) Reed 1931 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Encrinuroides regularis Pärnaste 2006 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae