Where: Ukraine (48.5° N, 26.5° E: paleocoordinates 21.4° S, 7.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Grinchuk Member (Rykhta Formation), Ludlow (427.4 - 423.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Grinchuk Mbr of the Rykhta Fm, which is overlain by the Isakovtsy Mbr of the same formation, and overlies the Bernovo Mbr of the Tsviklevtsy Fm (Ludlow). AGE: Ludlow, Silurian on the basis of graptolite biostratigraphy, Uncinatograptus caudatus-Monograptus balticus Zone = Upper Ludlow. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From layer of marl, approx. 1 m above the water level.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified marl and lithified limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section, acetic,
• COLLECTOR: O. Vinn and A.-M. Motus. REPOSITORY: Institute of Geology, University of Technology, Tallnin, Ehitajate, Ukraine. (GIT).
Primary reference: O. Vinn and M.-A. Motus. 2008. The earliest endosymbiotic mineralized tubeworms from the Silurian of Podolia, Ukraine. Journal of Paleontology 82(2):409-414 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 79781: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Lophophorata | |
Coralloconchus bragensis Vinn and Motus 2008 | |
Anthozoa | |
Squameofavosites incredibilis tabulate coral
Favosites gothlandicus Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral | |
Heliolites sp. Dana 1846 tabulate coral | |
Syringoheliolites sp. Bondarenko 1971 tabulate coral | |
Cystihalysites mirabilis tabulate coral |