Purtse, Mäeküla Member (Ordovician of Estonia)

Where: Ida-Viru, Estonia (59.4° N, 27.0° E: paleocoordinates 40.1° S, 3.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Mäeküla Member, Billingen (478.6 - 471.8 Ma)

• "BI beta", in Rubel (1961)

•Vääna substage

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; glauconitic limestone and glauconitic sandstone

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 191541: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 01.02.2018

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Ranorthidae
Ranorthis parvula Lamansky 1905