Hamra Beds Brachiopods (Silurian of Sweden)

Where: Gotland, Sweden (57.5° N, 18.4° E: paleocoordinates 16.5° S, 2.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Hamra Beds Formation, Ludfordian (425.6 - 423.0 Ma)

• Correlation from Jeppsson (1983), Fossils and Strata 15:128

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; limestone

• SEP: this sample almost certainly from interbiohermal limestones in oncolitic limestone facies in Hamra

Primary reference: M. G. Bassett and L. R. M. Cocks. 1974. A review of Silurian brachiopods from Gotland. Fossils and Strata (3)1-56 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13534: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 12.04.2002

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophochonetidae
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Lepidoleptaena sp. Havlicek 1963
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Parastrophinidae
Anastrophia deflexa Sowerby 1839
 Spiriferida - Cyrtinopsidae
Boucotinskia sulcata Hisinger 1837
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella elegans Muir-Wood 1925
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
? Striispirifer ? striolatus Lindström 1861
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Whitfieldella sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Athyridida - Rhynchospirinidae
Homoeospira baylei Davidson 1848
 Athyridida - Anoplothecidae
Coelospira pusilla Hisinger 1837
 Atrypida - Atrypinidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
Spinatrypa sp. Stainbrook 1951
Desquamatia sp. Alekseeva 1960
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
"Isorthis canaliculata" = Levenea canaliculata
"Isorthis canaliculata" = Levenea canaliculata Lindström 1861
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae