Mesotrypa esthonica-Eoplectodonta penkillensis Comm., SW Byelorussia (Silurian of Belarus)

Where: Belarus (52.0° N, 24.0° E: paleocoordinates 27.3° S, 2.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Monoclimacis griestoniensis - Monoclimacis crenulata graptolite zone, Zel’van Formation, Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

• M. greistonensis-M. crenulata Zones.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, green marl and gray, green claystone

• "The Z. Formation rests unconformably, transgressively over Middle Ordovician sediments, and grades into the marls and nodular limestones and limestones of the overlying, Wenlock Lipno Formation. Brachiopods and bryozoans are very rare in the Lipno, which is why communities have not been described from it. (For the time being they are considered as a Leangella-Glassia Association.) This is probably a BA 4-5 unit..."
• "Occurs in greenish-gray shales and marls, in dark, grayish-green argillites with graptolites and in marlstones."

Size class: macrofossils

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 23675: 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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Danduellina sp. n. sp.
sp. nov. 1
Cephalopoda
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Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Streptis sp. Davidson 1881
 Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae
Coolinia pecten Linnaeus 1758
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828
 Strophomenida - Strophonellidae
Strophonella sp. Hall 1879
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Dolerorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Resserella sp. n. sp. Bancroft 1928
sp. nov. 1
Resserella sabrinae Bassett 1972
Visbyella visbyensis Lindstrom 1861
 Protorthida - Skenidiidae
Skenidioides sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporata - Ceramoporidae
 Cryptostomata - Escharoporidae
Graptodictya sp. Ulrich 1882
  - Phylloporinidae
Pseudohornera sp. Roemer 1876
 Trepostomata - Ralfimartitidae
 Trepostomata - Trematoporidae
Trematopora sp. Hall 1852
Batostoma sp. n. sp. Ulrich 1882
 Trepostomata - Heterotrypidae
 Trepostomata - Halloporidae
 Trepostomata - Aisenvergiidae
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
Nematotrypa sp. n. sp. Bassler 1911
sp. nov. 1
 Trepostomida - Amplexoporidae
Anaphragma sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1904
 Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
 Fenestrata - Chasmatoporidae
Hyolitha
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Hyolitha indet. Marek 1963
Trilobita
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Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Graptolithina
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