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

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unclassified
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Danduellina sp. n. sp.
Danduellina sp. n. sp.
sp. nov. 1
Graptolithina
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Graptolithina indet.
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Trilobita
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Trilobita indet.
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
Cephalopoda
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Cephalopoda indet.
Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797
Hyolitha
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Hyolitha indet.
Hyolitha indet. Marek 1963
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Triplesiidae
Streptis sp.
Streptis sp. Davidson 1881
 Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae
Coolinia pecten
Coolinia pecten Linnaeus 1758
 Strophomenida - Strophonellidae
Strophonella sp.
Strophonella sp. Hall 1879
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena sp.
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Eoplectodonta penkillensis
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella sp.
Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Visbyella visbyensis, Resserella sp. n. sp., Resserella sabrinae
Visbyella visbyensis Lindstrom 1861
Resserella sp. n. sp. Bancroft 1928
sp. nov. 1
Resserella sabrinae Bassett 1972
 Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Dolerorthis sp.
Dolerorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
 Orthida - Platystrophiidae
Platystrophia sp.
 Protorthida - Skenidiidae
Skenidioides sp.
Skenidioides sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Amplexoporidae
Anaphragma solida, Anaphragma sp.
Anaphragma sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1904
 Trepostomida - Monticuliporidae
Mesotrypa esthonica, Aspidopora siluriana
 Fenestrata - Chasmatoporidae
Parachasmatopora cf. reticularis
 Cystoporata - Ceramoporidae
Crepipora cava, Ceramopora sp.
Ceramopora sp. Hall 1851
  - Phylloporinidae
Pseudohornera sp.
Pseudohornera sp. Roemer 1876
 Trepostomata - Trematoporidae
Batostoma sp. n. sp., Trematopora sp.
Batostoma sp. n. sp. Ulrich 1882
Trematopora sp. Hall 1852
 Trepostomata - Aisenvergiidae
Eridotrypa variabilis, Eridotrypa sp. n. sp.
Eridotrypa sp. n. sp. Ulrich 1893
 Trepostomata - Heterotrypidae
Heterotrypa astrovae, Heterotrypa incrustans, "Lioclema crustulum" = Leioclema
"Lioclema crustulum" = Leioclema
 Trepostomata - Halloporidae
Hallopora clausa, Hallopora pulchra, Hallopora clausiformis, Hallopora elegantula, Diplotrypa walkeri, Diplotrypa raikulaensis, Diplotrypa nummiformis
 Trepostomata - Ralfimartitidae
Dybowskites simplex
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
Nematotrypa sp. n. sp.
Nematotrypa sp. n. sp. Bassler 1911
sp. nov. 1
 Cryptostomata - Escharoporidae
Graptodictya sp.
Graptodictya sp. Ulrich 1882