Estlandia
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| Estlandia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Brachiopoda |
| Class: | †Strophomenata |
| Order: | †Billingsellida |
| Family: | †Gonambonitidae |
| Genus: | †Estlandia Schuchert & Cooper, 1931[1] |
| Species[2][1] | |
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Estlandia is a gonambonitid genus. It is one of the endemic brachiopods in the Ordovician of Baltoscandia.[3] Currently, eight different species and subspecies of the genus have been recorded from the Aseri to Keila stages.[3]
The distribution of the genus Estlandia is confined to the Middle and Upper Ordovician of the North Estonian Confacies Belt and the northwestern part of the Moscow Basin.[4][3]
The first notes on Estlandia date back to 1840.[5] The genus name was first published in 1931.[1]
