Piirsalu (Piersal), Lyckholm Fm. (Ordovician to of Estonia)

Also known as Piersal

Where: Lääne, Estonia (59.1° N, 24.0° E: paleocoordinates 29.0° S, 1.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lyckholm Formation, Vormsi to Vormsi (449.9 - 445.2 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: T. Strand. 1934. The Upper Ordovician Cephalopods of the Oslo Area. Norsk geologiske Tidsskrift 14:1-117 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 164229: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 26.11.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata - Halloporidae
Dianulites grandis1 Bassler 1911
Cephalopoda
 Tarphycerida - Trocholitidae
 Oncocerida - Graciloceratidae
Piersaloceras gageli2 Teichert 1930
 Oncocerida - Diestoceratidae
Diestoceras stensioei2 Troedsson 1926
Dowlingoceras piersalense2 Teichert 1930
 Discosorida - Westonoceratidae
Winnipegoceras sp.2 Foerste 1928
 Discosorida - Cyrtogomphoceratidae
 Multiceratoidea - Apsidoceratidae
 Pseudorthocerida - Spyroceratidae