Saka outcrop, Kalvi Member (Ordovician of Estonia)

Where: Estonia (59.4° N, 27.2° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 29.4° S, 62.2° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kalvi Member, Langevoja (472.1 - 469.1 Ma)

• "B II gamma K", in Rubel (1961)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; gray, 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 191571: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 02.02.2018

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Orthidae
"Orthambonites orbicularis" = Paralenorthis orbicularis
"Orthambonites orbicularis" = Paralenorthis orbicularis Pander 1830