Genus

Hesperorthis Schuchert et Cooper, 1931

Selection of related publications

Vinn, O., Isakar, M., El Hedeny, M., Almansour, M. I., Al Farraj, S. 2025. Rare signs of predation on rhynchonellate brachiopods in the early Katian (Late Ordovician) of northern Estonia. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie, Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 314, 2, 173-180. DOI:DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/2025/1248

Rubel, M. 2011. Silurian brachiopods Dictyonellida, Strophomenida, Productida, Orthotetida, Protorthida and Orthida from Estonia. Fossilia Baltica 4, pp. 1-133. Tartu Ülikooli geoloogia instituut.

Bassett, M. G., Cocks, L. R. M. 1974. A review of Silurian brachiopods from Gotland. Fossils and Strata 3, 1-56.

Rubel, M. P. 1963. Silurian brachiopods Orthida of Estonia. ENSV TA Geoloogia Instituudi Uurimused XIII, 109-160.

Rubel, M. P. 1962. Estonian Llandoverian Brachiopods of the superfamily Orthacea. ENSV TA Geoloogia Instituudi Uurimused IX, 75-92.

Oraspõld, A. L. 1959. Some representatives of the Superfamily Orthacea from the Upper Ordovician of Estonia. Tartu Riikliku Ülikooli Toimetised 75, I, 51-79.

Oraspõld, A. L. 1956. New brachiopods from the Jõhvi, Keila and Vasalemma stages. ENSV TA Geoloogia Instituudi Uurimused I, 41-67.

Öpik, A. 1934. Über Klitamboniten. Acta et Commentationes Universitatis Tartuensis XXVI, 5, 1-239. K. Mattiesen.

Öpik, A. 1930. Brachiopoda Protremata der estländischen ordovizischen Kukruse-Stufe. Tartu Ülikooli Geoloogia Instituudi Toimetused 20, 1-261.

Öpik, A. 1930. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Kukruse-(C2-C3-)Stufe in Eesti. IV. Tartu Ülikooli Geoloogia Instituudi Toimetused 24, 1-34.

List of species

1. Hesperorthis davidsoni (Verneuil, 1848) | Adavere Stage→Jaani Stage

2. Hesperorthis gotlandica (Schuchert et Cooper, 1932)

3. Hesperorthis hillistensis Rubel, 1962 | Juuru Stage→Raikküla Stage

4. Hesperorthis imbecilla Rubel, 1962 | Juuru Stage

5. Hesperorthis inostranzefi (Wysogórski, 1900)

6. Hesperorthis martinssoni Bassett et Cocks, 1974 | Wenlock→Ludlow

7. Hesperorthis mucronata Oraspõld, 1959 | Pirgu Stage

8. Hesperorthis pljussensis Alichova, 1951 | Haljala Stage→Keila Stage

9. Hesperorthis rae Oraspõld, 1956 | Haljala Stage

10. Hesperorthis torquata Rubel, 1962

Classification

Organism group	Biota
Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Brachiopoda
Subphylum	Rhynchonelliformea
Class	Rhynchonellata
Order	Orthida
Suborder	Orthidina
Superfamily	Orthoidea
Family	Hesperorthidae
Genus	Barbarorthis
	Boreadorthis
	Dolerorthis
	Hesperorthis
Species	davidsoni
	gotlandica
	hillistensis
	imbecilla
	inostranzefi
	martinssoni
	mucronata
	pljussensis
	rae
	torquata
	tricenaria
Genus	Ptychopleurella