Cardiolinka concubina Community in the Chelm borehole, eastern Poland (Silurian of Poland)

Where: Poland (53.2° N, 23.5° E: paleocoordinates 16.3° S, 2.7° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pridoli (423.0 - 419.2 Ma)

• Neocolonograptus parultimus-Istrograptus transgrediencs biozones.

Environment/lithology: marine; calcareous mudstone

• "The environment was shallow, and influenced bgy current activity."
• "Disarticulated shells occur on bedding planes of dark, calcareous mudstone."

Collection methods: Despite distribution, text seems to imply that all faunal elements are found at type locality.

Primary reference: L. Teller and A. J. Boucot. 1999. Polish Ludlow-Lower Devonian communities. In A. J. Boucot and J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 350-354 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 23021: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 08.07.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Graptolites not included in list. Not possible to determine with certainty from ref. 6630 which graptolites are found in these beds.
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Graptolithina
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Graptolithina indet.
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Lunulacardiidae
Lunulacardium undulatum, Lunulacardium evolvens, Pterochaenia contempta
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Actinopteria migrans
Actinopteria migrans oyster
A. migrans migrans
 Cyrtodontida - Cardiolidae
Cardiolinka concubina
Euchelicerata
 Eurypterida - Pterygotidae
Pterygotus sp.
Pterygotus sp. Agassiz 1839 eurypterid