Organism group

Incertae sedis (fossils)

Selection of related publications

Vinn, O., Nanglu, K., Wilson, M. A., Isakar, M., Toom, U. 2025. Ediacaran-type non-mineralized tube-dwelling organisms persisted into the early Cambrian (Terreneuvian) in Baltica. Gondwana Research 137, 29-35. DOI:10.1016/j.gr.2024.09.009

Vinn, O., Wilson, M. A., Madison, A., Kazantseva, E., Toom, U. 2022. First symbiotic association between hederelloids and rugose corals (latest Silurian of Saaremaa, Estonia). Palaios 37, 7, 368-373. DOI:10.2110/palo.2022.005

Golubkova, E. Y., Bobrovskiy, I. M., Kushim, E. A., Plotkina, Y. V. 2021. Fossil Organisms of the Redkino Regional Stage of the Upper Vendian of the Northwestern Russian Platform (Leningrad Region). Paleontological Journal 55, 5, 579-587. DOI:10.1134/S0031030121050051

Hints, O., Nõlvak, J., Liang, Y. 2021. Possible metazoan egg fossils from the Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) of Baltoscandia. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 70, 4, 240-252. DOI:10.3176/earth.2021.16

Ivantsov, A., Zakrevskaya, M. 2021. Dickinsonia: mobile and adhered. Geological Magazine 1-16. DOI:10.1017/S0016756821000194

Ivantsov, A. Yu., Zakrevskaya, M. A. 2021. Trilobozoa, Precambrian Tri-Radial Organisms. Paleontological Journal 55, 7, 727-741. DOI:10.1134/S0031030121070066

Kleppe, K. S., Nakerm, H. A., Stouge, S. 2018. Cambrian (Series 3 – Furongian) conodonts from the Alum Shale Formation at Slemmestad, Oslo Region, Norway. Norwegian Journal of Geology 98, 1, 41-53. DOI:10.17850/njg98-1-04

Slater, B. J., Harvey, T. H. P., Butterfield, N. J. 2018. Small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs) from the Terreneuvian (lower Cambrian) of Baltica. Palaeontology 61, 3, 417-439. DOI:10.1111/pala.12350

Golubkova, E. Y., Kushim, E. A., Kuznetsov, A. B., Yanovskii, A. S., Maslov, A. V., Shvedov, S. D., Plotkina, Y. V. 2018. Redkinian Biota of Macroscopic Fossils from the Northwestern East European Platform (South Ladoga Region). Geology 479, 1, 300-304. DOI:10.1134/S1028334X18030169

Jarochowska, E., Hierl, F., Vinn, O., Munnecke, A. 2016. Reducing taxonomic noise in problematic fossils: revision of the incertae sedis genus Allonema based on shape analysis. Bulletin of Geosciences 91, 1, 97-110. DOI:10.3140/bull.geosci.1588

Zatoń, M., Vinn, O., Toom, U. 2016. A new microconchid species from the Silurian of Baltica. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 65, 2, 115-123. DOI:10.3176/earth.2016.09

Jarochowska, E., Munnecke, A. 2014. The Paleozoic problematica Wetheredella and Allonema are two aspects of the same organism. Facies 60, 2, 651-662. DOI:10.1007/s10347-014-0399-z

Landing, E., Peng, S., Babcock, L. E., Geyer, G., Moczydlowska-Vidal, M. 2007. Global standard names for the Lowermost Cambrian Series and Stage. Episodes 30, 4, 287-289. DOI:10.18814/epiiugs/2007/v30i4/004

Jensen, S. 2003. The Proterozoic and Earliest Cambrian Trace Fossil Record; Patterns, Problems and Perspectives. Integrative and Comparative Biology 43, 1, 219-228. DOI:10.1093/icb/43.1.219

Sutton, M. D., Holmer, L. E., Cherns, L. 2001. Small problematic phosphatic sclerites from the Ordovician of Iapetus. Journal of Paleontology 75, 1, 1-8. DOI:10.1017/S0022336000031863

Munnecke, A., Servais, T., Vachard, D. 2000. A New Family Of Calcareous Microfossils From The Silurian Of Gotland, Sweden. Palaeontology 43, 6, 1153-1172. DOI:10.1111/1475-4983.00165

Nitecki M. H., Mutvei, H., Nitecki, D. V. 1999. Receptaculitids: A Phylogenetic Debate on a Problematic Fossil Taxon. pp. 1-241. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Pirrus, E. 1992. Freshening of the late Vendian basin on the East European Craton. Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. Geology 41, 3, 115-123. DOI:10.3176/geol.1992.3.03

Kõrts, A. 1991. Distribution of calcareous algae, oncolites and stromatolites in Wenlock-Ludlow boundary beds in Estonia. Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. Geology 40, 2, 43-49. DOI:10.3176/geol.1991.2.02

Kõrts, A., Einasto, R., Männil, Ralf, Radionova, E. 1990. Calcareous algae. pp. 97-100. Estonian Academy of Sciences.

Radionova, E., Einasto, R. 1986. The algal communities, their facies relations in the East Baltic Wenlock and Ludlow. Theory and practice of ecostratigraphy, pp. 163-185. Valgus.

Fedonkin, M. A. 1985. Sistematičeskoe opisanie vendskih Metazoa. pp. 70-106. Nauka.

Miagkova, E. I. 1981. Receptaculites poelmi Miagkova sp. nov.. Transactions of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics 481, 38-41. Nauka.

Schallreuter, R. 1980. Ordovizische Problematika, II. Microancientia gen. n.. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 54, 3/4, 313-318. DOI:10.1007/BF02988133

Brummer, G. J. A. 1979. Palaeobiology of Tetragonis sulcata d'Eichwald, 1860, an Ordovician receptaculite in erratics from the northern Netherlands. Scripta Geologica 53, 1-40.

Riding, R. 1979. Calcareous algae. Sveriges Geologiska Undersökning 73, 3, 54-62.

Palij, V. M., Posti, E., Fedonkin, M. A. 1979. Soft-bodied Metazoa and trace fossils of Vendian and Lower Cambrian. Upper Precambrian and Cambrian Paleontology of East-European Platform, pp. 49-82. Nauka.

Voronova, L. G., Radionova, E. P. 1976. Paleozoic Algae and Microphytolites. Trudy GIN AN SSSR 294, 1-220. Nauka.

Rothpletz, A. 1908. Ueber Algen und hydrozoen im Silur von Gotland und Oesel. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar 43, 5, 1-25.

Ulrich, E. O., Bassler, R. S. 1904. A revision of Paleozoic Bryozoa, Part I. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 45, 256-294.

Rauff, H. 1892. Untersuchungen über die Organisation und systematische Stellung der Receptaculitiden. Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 17, 645-722.

Eichwald, E. 1861. Paleontologiâ Rossii. Drevnij period. II. Fauna grauvakkovoj, gornoizvestkovoj i medistoslancevatoj formacij Rossii. pp. 1-521. R. Golike (former Ya. Ionsona).

Eichwald, E. 1860. Lethaea Rossica ou Paléontologie de la Russie. Premier volume. Ancienne Période en deux sections. pp. XIX+1–1657. E. Schweizerbart. DOI:10.5962/bhl.title.52391

Eichwald, E. 1855. Beitrag zur geographischen Verbreitung der fossilen Thiere Russlands. Alte Periode. Bulletin de la Société Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou 28, 4, 433-466.

List of species

1. Albumares brunsae Fedonkin, 1976 | Kotlin Stage

2. Allonema aggregatum Ulrich et Bassler, 1904 | Wenlock→Middle Devonian

3. Allonema botelloides Ulrich et Bassler, 1904 | Silurian

4. Allonema botellus (Vine, 1884) | Silurian

5. Allonema moniliforme (Whiteaves, 1891) | Wenlock→Middle Devonian

6. Allonema silurica (Wood, 1948)

7. Allonema subfusiforme Ulrich & Bassler, 1904a

8. Anfesta stankovskii Fedonkin, 1985 | Kotlin Stage

9. Arouxina pluricellata Munnecke, Servais et Vachard, 2000 | Wenlock

10. Clistrocystis graptolithophilius Kozłowski, 1959 | Darriwilian

11. Eurytholia elibata Sutton, Holmer et Cherns, 2001 | Kukruse Stage