Dayia minor-Isorthis canaliculata-Lioclema exile Comm., SW Byelorussia (Silurian of Belarus)

Where: Belarus (52.0° N, 24.0° E: paleocoordinates 17.0° S, 3.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pridoli (423.0 - 419.2 Ma)

• Upper Mukhavets Subformation and Kustin Formation.

Environment/lithology: marine; dolomitic, shelly/skeletal marl and dolomitic, shelly/skeletal shale

• "Similar to Skala Horizon assemblages of Podolia, whic are high diversity unites dominated by corals. Similar Pridolian assemblages...in slope facies of Kuressaare and Kaugatuma stages of Baltic region. BA 3."
• "Occurs in marl and shale with laminae of marlstone nodules and lenses (Upper Mukhavets Subformation), grading into the homogeneous, dolomitic marls and shales of the overlying Kustin Formation." [shells in coquinas]

Collection methods: core

• Abundances given for dominant brachiopods and bryozoans.

Primary reference: V. I. Pushkin and T. L. Modzalevskaya. 1999. Silurian and Lower Devonian brachiopod and bryozoan communities of southwestern Byelorussia. In A. J. Boucot and J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 496-509 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 23655: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 18.07.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Demospongiae
 Chaetetida - Tiverinidae
Barrandeolites sp. Sokolov and Prantl 1965 chaetetid sponge
Stromatoporoidea
 Labechiida - Lophiostromatidae
Lophiostroma sp. Nicholson 1891 stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Proporidae
Rotalites sp. Leleshus 1974 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Tuvaelites sp. Chekhovich 1971 tabulate coral
Cephalopoda
  -
Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida -
? Strophochonetes sp. Muir-Wood 1962
 Strophomenida - Strophochonetidae
Protochonetes sp. n. sp. Muir-Wood 1962
sp. nov. 1
 Strophomenida - Shaleriidae
"Mesodouvillina cf. dzwinogrodensis" = Shaleria dzwinogrodensis, "Shaleriella tenuis" = Shaleria (Shaleriella)
"Mesodouvillina cf. dzwinogrodensis" = Shaleria dzwinogrodensis Kozlowski 1929
"Shaleriella tenuis" = Shaleria (Shaleriella)
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Dalejina sp. n. sp. Havlicek 1953
Dalejina hybrida Sowerby 1839
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
? Resserella sp. Bancroft 1928
"Isorthis canaliculata" = Levenea canaliculata Lindström 1861
 Orthida - Draboviidae
Salopina submedia McLearn 1924
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
? Glassina sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
 Athyridida - Dayiidae
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Xenotrypidae
 Cystoporata - Fistuliporidae
 Cryptostomata - Ptilodictyidae
 Trepostomata - Heterotrypidae
"Lioclema exile" = Leioclema
"Lioclema exile" = Leioclema
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
 Trepostomida -
Trilobita
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Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily