Parallelostroma multiplexum Community, Saray Stage, Urals (Devonian of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (56.5° N, 56.1° E: paleocoordinates 0.8° N, 12.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• Saray Regional Stage, Lochkovian

Environment/lithology: marine; gray limestone

• "Small groups of Protathyris praecursor (shells still articulated) may occur between the stromatoporoids. Laterally this Comm. is associated with the BA 3, quiet water Levigatella eleganta Community."
• "Occurs in light gray and gray, bedded limestone. Associated with a quiet water, siltstone (micrite) substrate...biostromes in life position."

Primary reference: V. P. Sapelnikov, O. V. Bogoyavlenskaya, L. I. Mizens and V. P. Shuysky. 1999. Silurian and Early Devonian benthic communities of the Ural-Tien Shan region. In A. J. Boucot and J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 510-544 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 23725: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 19.07.2002

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Taxonomic list

• The stromatoporoid-dominated communities are often associated with other faunal elements, but the lists given emphasize the dominant stromatoporoids.
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Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporellida - Trupetostromatidae
"Amnestostroma fedorovi" = Hermatostromella
"Amnestostroma fedorovi" = Hermatostromella stromatoporoid sponge
 Syringostromatida - Coenostromatidae
Parallelostroma multiplexum, Parallelostroma scabrum
Parallelostroma multiplexum stromatoporoid sponge
Parallelostroma scabrum stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
Coenellostroma tabulatum
Coenellostroma tabulatum stromatoporoid sponge
 Amphiporida - Amphiporidae
Stellopora intexta
Stellopora intexta stromatoporoid sponge