Where: Russian Federation (59.8° N, 30.4° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 29.3° S, 62.2° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Oepikodus evae conodont zone, Vassilkovo Member (Leetse Formation), Billingen (474.8 - 471.1 Ma)

• Billingen Stage; lower part of Vassilkovo Member; Oepicodus evae conodont zone

•JA: originally entered as Arenigian, but the evae zone is Floian (see Männik and Viira 2012)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified claystone and lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Egerquist. 2003. New brachiopods from the Lower-Middle Ordovician (Billingen-Volkhov stages) of the East Baltic. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48(1):31-38 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62345: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.07.2006, edited by Björn Kröger

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