Where: Latvia (57.8° N, 22.6° E: paleocoordinates 25.4° S, 1.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Demirastrites convolutus graptolite zone, Upper Member (Dobele Formation), Raikkula (440.8 - 438.8 Ma)

• Contains graptolites of Demirastrites convolutus Zone. Conochitina alargada chitinozoan zone. This would be the upper part of the Dobele given Loydell et al. (2003: Geological Magazine). PJW.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, bioturbated, gray, calcareous mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Not reported are "common Clorinda community brachiopods, ...[rare] benthos and graptolites of the Demirastrites convolutus Zone."

Primary reference: R. Mannil and M. Rubel. 1999. Selected brachiopod and trilobite communities of the East Baltic Silurian. In A. J. Boucot, J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 253-270 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13722: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 22.04.2002

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