ASGP (2012), vol. 82: 195–200

EPI- AND ENDOBIONTS ON THE LATE SILURIAN (EARLY PRIDOLI) STROMATOPOROIDS FROM SAAREMAA ISLAND, ESTONIA

Olev VINN(1) & Mark A. WILSON(2)

1) Department of Geology, University of Tartu, Ravila 14A, Tartu 50411, Estonia, olev.vinn at ut.ee
2) Department of Geology, The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH 44691, USA, mwilson at wooster.edu

Vinn, O. & Wilson, M. A., 2012. Epi- and endobionts on the late Silurian (early Pridoli) stromatoporoids from Saaremaa Island, Estonia. Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae, 82: 195–200.

Abstract: A diverse sclerobiont community is described from the Kaugatuma Formation (lower Pridoli) of Saare- maa, Estonia. The stromatoporoid substrates studied here vary from low-domical to high-domical shapes. The community is numerically dominated by microconchids, which may have been characteristic of the sclerobiont fauna in the Pridoli of Baltica. Palaeoconchus aff. tenuis, Anticalyptraea calyptrata, Aulopora sp., sheet-like bryozoans, branching bryozoans, erect bryozoan holdfasts, rugosans, favositids, discoidal crinoid holdfasts, star- like crinoid holdfasts and sheet-like stromatoporoids encrust the domical stromatoporoids. Endobionts are repre- sented by embedded, symbiotic rugosans, Aulopora sp., and two rare borings Trypanites.