Principal Fossils of the Karpinskia consuelo Zone, Central Carnic Alps (Devonian of Italy)

Where: Italy (46.5° N, 13.0° E: paleocoordinates 38.9° S, 46.1° E)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lambertenghi Formation, Late/Upper Emsian (402.5 - 391.9 Ma)

• Age call is by Vai (Emsien sup.) . PJW: Karpinskia consuelo Zone is Lambertenghi

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, gray limestone

• Entire sequence interpreted as biohermal.
• Lithology description: "Gray biohermal limestones marked by yellowish levels, with layers indicative of stratification; thickness about 225 m"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. B. Vai. 1965. Le Devonien inferieur biohermal des Alpes Carniques Centrales. Memoires du Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres 33:79-80 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26257: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 09.10.2002

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Taxonomic list

• The most significant or characteristic taxa are listed here by Vai. See PBDB collections 26245-26253 for more information. Here I have followed Vai's summary list without questioning any of his occurrences.
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Pseudophoridae
""Euomphalus" subalatus" = Scalaetrochus subalatus
""Euomphalus" subalatus" = Scalaetrochus subalatus de Verneuil 1850 snail
 Cyrtoneritida - Orthonychiidae
"Platyceras (Orthonychia) alienum" = Orthonychia
"Platyceras (Orthonychia) alienum" = Orthonychia snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Rostroconchia
 Conocardiida - Hippocardiidae
"Conocardium artifex" = Cartericardia artifex
"Conocardium artifex" = Cartericardia artifex Barrande 1881
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Septalariidae
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
 Athyridida - Rhynchospirinidae
 Spiriferida - Reticulariidae
 Atrypida - Karpinskiidae
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
"Cheirurus (Crotalocephalus) sternbergi" = Crotalocephalus sternbergi
"Cheirurus (Crotalocephalus) sternbergi" = Crotalocephalus sternbergi Boeck 1827 trilobite
 Proetida - Proetidae
"Proetus bohemicus" = Bohemiproetus bohemicus
"Proetus bohemicus" = Bohemiproetus bohemicus Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite