Syringaxon siluriensis Community, Demshin subsuite, Podolia (Silurian of Ukraine)

Where: Ukraine (48.0° N, 26.0° E: paleocoordinates 25.6° S, 7.3° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Demshin Subsuite Formation, Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)

• Kitaigorodian superhorizon, Yaruga series, Furmanovka suite, Demshin subsuite.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, green marl

• Closely spaced, spotty settlements (within 1-3 cm of each other) in gray-green, massive marls having an admixture of carbonate detritus that contains in situ corals. Overall there is evidence of weak turbulence. Assigned to BA 4 because graptolite community beds occur immediately below and the Striispirifer plicatellus community above in a regressive sequence."
• "gray-green, massive marls having an admixture of carbonate detritus that contains in situ corals."

Primary reference: V. P. Gritsenko, A. A. Istchenko, L. I. Konstantinenko and P. D. Tsegelnjuk. 1999. Animal and plant communities of Podolia. In A. J. Boucot and J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 462-487 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 23451: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 15.07.2002

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Merisitina podolica, Oneothodus coniformis, Rhabdopleurella intermedia
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa harknessi
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Encrinurus punctatus
Encrinurus punctatus Wahlenberg 1821 trilobite
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Laccophyllidae
Syringaxon siluriense
Protozoa
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Linochitina erratica