Aseri outcrop, Valgejõgi Member (Ordovician of Estonia)

Where: Ida-Virumaa, Estonia (59.5° N, 26.9° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 29.8° S, 61.0° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Valgejõgi Member, Aluoja (465.9 - 458.0 Ma)

• "BIII gamma V", in Rubel (1961)

Environment/lithology: marine; argillaceous limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: M. Rubel. 1961. Brakhiopody nadsemejstv Orthacea, Dalmanellacea i Syntrophiacea iz nizhnego ordovika Pribaltiki [Lower Ordovician brachiopods of the superfamilies Orthacea, Dalmanellacea and Syntrophiacea of the Eastern Baltic]. Eesti NSV Teaduste Akadeemia Geoloogia Instituudi Uurimused 6:141-224 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/B. Kröger]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 191430: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 29.01.2018

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Lycophoriidae
Lycophoria nucella Dalman 1828
 Orthida - Orthidae
"Orthambonites calligramma" = Orthambonites calligramme, Orthambonites inaequalis
"Orthambonites calligramma" = Orthambonites calligramme Dalman 1828
Strophomenata
 Billingsellida - Gonambonitidae