Genus

Piretella Öpik, 1937

Selection of related publications

Meidla, T. 1996. Late Ordovician Ostracodes of Estonia. Fossilia Baltica 2. pp. 1-222. Tartu University Press.

Meidla, T. 1996. Latest Ordovician ostracodes of Baltoscandia. Danmarks Geologiske Undersøgelse 98, 63-68. GEUS.

Olempska, E. 1994. Ostracods of the Mojcza Limestone. Palaeontologia Polonica 53, 129-212.

Sidaravičiene, N. 1992. Ordovician ostracods of Lithuania. pp. 1-252. LitNIIGRI.

Gailite, L. 1975. New species of ostracoda from Upper Ordovician of Latvia. The Fauna and Stratigraphy of Paleozoic and Mesozoic of Baltic and Byelorussia, pp. 45-58. Mintis.

Sarv, L. 1959. Ordovician ostracodes in the Estonian S.S.R.. ENSV TA Geoloogia Instituudi Uurimused IV, 1-210.

Thorslund, P. 1948. On the Silurian beds above the Pentamerus limestone in Jemtland. Description of fossils. Sveriges Geologiska Undersökning 42, 3, 1-37.

Öpik, A. 1937. Ostracoda from the Ordovician Uhaku and Kukruse formations of Estonia. Tartu Ülikooli Geoloogia Instituudi Toimetused 50, 1-58.

List of species

1. Piretella acmaea Öpik, 1937 | Oandu Stage→Pirgu Stage

2. Piretella amphicristata Olempska, 1994 | Middle Ordovician

3. Piretella margaritata Öpik, 1937 | Uhaku Stage→Kukruse Stage

4. Piretella oepiki Thorslund, 1940 | Upper Ordovician

5. Piretella paežerensis Sidaravičiene, 1992 | Idavere Substage→Jõhvi Substage

6. Piretella triebeli Schallreuter, 1964 | Kukruse Stage→Oandu Stage

7. Piretella velata Gailite, 1975 | Pirgu Stage

Classification

Organism group	Biota
Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Subphylum	Crustacea
Superclass	Oligostraca
Class	Ostracoda
Subclass	Podocopa
Order	Palaeocopida
Suborder	Beyrichicopina
	Palaeocopa
Superfamily	Eurychilinacea
Family	Eurychilinidae
Subfamily	Piretellinae
Genus	Hesperidella
	Klyasinella
	Lembitsarvella
	Piretella
Species	acmaea
	amphicristata
	margaritata
	oepiki
	paežerensis
	triebeli
	velata