Levigatella eleganta Community, Early Lochkovian, Urals (Devonian of Russian Federation)

Where: Russian Federation (60.0° N, 60.0° E: paleocoordinates 3.8° N, 10.1° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone and argillaceous limestone

• "Occurs in BA 3, rough water, reef conditions, where more or less evenly distributed settlements...occur. Also occupies several environments such as hard ground parts of reefs and interreef soft bottoms."
• "Occurs in light pink, massive, brecciated limestones, and laterally in dark, argillaceous, bedded limestone..."

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 24738: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 19.08.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Favositida - Cleistoporidae
Riphaeolites sp.
Riphaeolites sp. Yanet 1955 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp., Squameofavosites sp.
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
Squameofavosites sp. Chernyshev 1941 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Parastriatoporidae
Parastriatopora sp.
Parastriatopora sp. Sokolov 1949 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora sp., Cladopora sp.
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral
Cladopora sp. Hall 1851 tabulate coral
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
Pseudomicroplasma sp.
 Stauriida - Mucophyllidae
Pseudamplexus sp.
Pseudamplexus sp. Weissermel 1897 horn coral
Name corrected from "Pseudoamplexus"
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Neomphyma sp.
Neomphyma sp. Soshkina 1937 horn coral
 Stauriida - Spongophyllidae
Spongophyllum sp.
Spongophyllum sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral
 Stauriida - Laccophyllidae
Barrandeophyllum sp.
Barrandeophyllum sp. Pocta 1902 horn coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Syringostromatida - Coenostromatidae
Parallelostroma multiplexum
Parallelostroma multiplexum stromatoporoid sponge
Crinoidea
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Pentagonocyclicus sp., Pandocrinus sp.
Pentagonocyclicus sp. Yeltysheva and Shevchenko 1960 Sea lily
Pandocrinus sp. Stukalina 1965 Sea lily
 Cyathocrinida - Crotalocrinitidae
Parapernerocrinus sp.
Parapernerocrinus sp. Yakovlev 1949 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Eucalyptocrinitidae
Eucalyptocrinites sp.
Eucalyptocrinites sp. Goldfuss 1831 Sea lily
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida -
Colongina putilla
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Protathyris praecursor
 Atrypida - Septatrypidae
"Atrypopsis megaerella" = Septatrypa
"Atrypopsis megaerella" = Septatrypa
 Atrypida - Punctatrypidae
Atrypinella delicata
 Terebratulida - Meganterididae
Podolella rensselaeroides
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
Gypidula optata, Gypidula mutabila, Levigatella eleganta
 Rhynchonellida - Innaechiidae
Decoropugnax berenice, Decoropugnax linguata
 Rhynchonellida - Hebetoechiidae
Lanceomyonia borealiformis, Hebetoechia vagranica
Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Cavellinidae
Cavellina sp.
Cavellina sp. Coryell 1928 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Pachydomellidae
Newsomites sp.
 Podocopida -
Bairdiohealdites sp.
 Podocopida - Bairdiocyprididae
Praepilatina sp.
Praepilatina sp. Polenova 1970 ostracod