Silurian part of beds containing S-D boundary, Rauchkofel section, Woyaler facie (Silurian of Austria)

Where: Austria (46.7° N, 13.0° E: paleocoordinates 42.4° S, 52.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: eosteinhornensis zone, Pridoli (423.0 - 419.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, black, gray limestone

• "Wolayer facies = micritic nodular limestones with reduced thicknesses of about 30 m due to stratigraphic gaps in the Lower Silurian." "Beds in which the S-D boundary occurs consist of grey or black platy crinoidal limestones with reare orthoceratids in the Silurian part of the succession, and of grey, well-bedded Flaserkalke with rare fossils int he Devonian part. Conodonts show, however, that the lilthologic change does not correspond with the boundary, which has to be drawn in the basal part of the Flaserkalke...Continuous sedimentation across the boundary is attested to by the presence of Scyphocrinites at the top of the black limestone facies and Novakia acuaria ten metres above the boundary level."

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 13914: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 03.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Spathagnathodus steinhornensis
subsp. eosteinhornensis
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida -
Ozarkodina typica Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Scyphocrinitidae
Scyphocrinites sp. Zenker 1833 Sea lily