Loc. 6817, Lava River, Päite Member (Ordovician of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (59.9° N, 31.6° E: paleocoordinates 39.9° S, 0.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Päite Member (Leetse Formation), Billingen (474.8 - 471.1 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, argillaceous limestone and dolomitic, glauconitic limestone

• "the Päite Member consits here of bedded or seminodular glauconitoferous argillaceous limestones with clayey intercalations and of thick bedded glauconitiferous dolomitized limestones.", in Rubel & Popov (1994)

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: M. Rubel and L. Popov. 1994. Brachiopods of the subfamily Atelelasmatinae (Clitambonitacea) from the Arenig, Ordovician, of the Baltic klint area. Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. Geology 43(4):192-202 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 191961: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Björn Kröger on 26.02.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Conodonta
 Belodellida - Belodellidae
Stolodus stola
Stolodus stola Lindström 1955 conodont
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Ranorthidae
Ranorthis sp.
Ranorthis sp. Öpik 1939
 Orthida - Productorthidae
Panderina tetragona
Panderina tetragona Pander 1830
 Orthida - Paurorthidae
Paurorthis resima
Paurorthis resima Rubel 1961
Strophomenata
 Billingsellida - Polytoechiidae
Antigonambonites planus
 Billingsellida - Clitambonitidae
Neumania erecta
Neumania erecta Pander 1830
 Strophomenida - Plectambonitidae
Plectella crassa