ammonites

Paope: Vormsi, Estonia

Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Geography
Country:Estonia State/province:Hiiu County:Körgessaare
Coordinates: 58.9° North, 22.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.9° South, 2.3° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
Key time interval:Vormsi
Age range of interval:460.5 - 443.7 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kõrgessaare
Stratigraphy comments: All Vormsian localities on Hiiumaa Island are within the Kõrgessaare Fm. (see fig. 55 in Raukas & Teedumäe [eds.] 1997, Geology and Mineral Resources of Estonia, html version, http://sarv.gi.ee/geology);
The Vormsi Regional Stage is formerly known as the middle part of the "Lyckholm'sche Schicht" (Raukas & Teedumäe [eds.] 1997)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: The Kõrgessaare Fm. is composed of "bioclastic limestones" (Raukas & Teedumäe [eds.] 1997, Geology and Mineral Resources of Estonia, html version, http://sarv.gi.ee/geology)
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Geology comments: "North Estonian Confacies Belt at the northern flank of the Livonian Tongue" (Kröger & Isakar, 2006)
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Locality V3; Hiiumaa Island; Dagö, Dago
Database number:87306
Authorizer:B. Kröger Enterer:T. Liebrecht
Modifier:T. Liebrecht Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-03-14 12:38:08 Last modified:2009-03-15 10:07:41
Access level:the public Released:2009-03-14 12:38:08
Reference information
Primary reference:
29316 B. Kröger and M. Isakar. 2006. Revision of annulated orthoceridan cephalopods of the Baltoscandic Ordovician. Fossil Record 9(1):137-163 [B. Kröger/B. Kröger/B. Kröger]