Cardiola level, Plockener facies, Cellon-Lawineriss section (Silurian of Austria)

Where: Austria (46.7° N, 13.0° E: paleocoordinates 6.7° S, 19.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Polygnathoides siluricus zone, Ludfordian (425.6 - 423.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal limestone and shale

• "Plockener facies = dominantly biocalcarenitic and bioruditic crinoidal limestones with thicknesses of about 50 m." [Section diagram indicates shales and slaty marls as well for these beds.]

Primary reference: H. W. Fluegel, H. Jaeger, H. P. Schoenlaub and G. B. Vai. 1977. Carnic Alps. in A. Martinsson, ed. The Silurian-Devonian boundary (IUGS, Series A, Number 5). Schweizerbart'sche, Stuttgart. 126-142 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13908: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 03.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Raphiophorus roualti
Bivalvia
 Cyrtodontida - Cardiolidae
Cardiola cornucopiae, Cardiola cf. consanguis
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Sphaerorthoceratidae
Hemicosmorthoceras celloni
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Septatrypidae
"Septatrypa sappho" = Septatrypa, "Dubaria megaerella" = Septatrypa
"Septatrypa sappho" = Septatrypa
"Dubaria megaerella" = Septatrypa
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Monograptidae
"Monograptus bohemicus" = Bohemograptus bohemicus, Monograptus haupti, Monograptus dubius, Monograptus aff. haupti, Monograptus butovicensis
"Monograptus bohemicus" = Bohemograptus bohemicus Barrande 1850 graptolite
Monograptus haupti graptolite
Monograptus dubius graptolite
Monograptus aff. haupti graptolite
"M. n sp. aff. haupti"