Gotland, carbonate mounds (Ordovician of Sweden)

Also known as Reef 1739

Where: Sweden (57.8° N, 18.9° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 26.4° S, 60.0° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Klasen Formation, Ashgill (449.5 - 443.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks and lithified wackestone

• More than 100 mounds dominated by algae and stromatolites. 10-25 m thick and 200-800 m in diameter. Mound facies: algal packstone/boundstone interbedded with wackestones, cap and flank facies: packstones and wackestones, sub and supra mound facies: lime mudstones and wackestones.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: U. Sivhed, M. Erlström, J. A. Bojesen-Koefoed and A. Löfgren. 2004. Upper Ordovician carbonate mounds on Gotland, central Baltic Sea: distribution, composition and reservoir characteristics. Journal of Petroleum Geology 27(2):115-140 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 80782: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.05.2008

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Taxonomic list

• Fossils from mound and sub-mound facies.
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unclassified
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"Stromatolite" indet.
Protozoa
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Cyathochitina sp.
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet.
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Gastropoda
 Pleurotomariacea -
"Pleurotomariacea indet." = Pleurotomarioidea
"Pleurotomariacea indet." = Pleurotomarioidea Swainson 1840 snail
Polychaeta
 Eunicida - Polychaetaspidae
Oenonites sp.
Oenonites sp. Hinde 1879
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Lingulata
 Acrotretida - Scaphelasmatidae
Scaphelasma sp.
Scaphelasma sp. Cooper 1956
 Acrotretida - Eoconulidae
Eoconulus sp.
Eoconulus sp. Cooper 1956
 Siphonotretida - Siphonotretidae
Acanthambonia sp.
Acanthambonia sp. Cooper 1956
Conodonta
 Panderodontida - Panderodontidae
Panderodus gracilis
Panderodus gracilis Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
unclassified
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Echinodermata indet.
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Hexactinellida
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Hexactinellida indet.
Hexactinellida indet. Schmidt 1870 glass sponge