Sitio Wolff: Early/Lower Givetian, Brazil

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Lingulata - Lingulida
Lingulida indet. Waagen 1885
Lingulata - Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea baini
Orbiculoidea excentrica (Ifanova 1972)
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
Schuchertella agassizi
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Meganterididae
Derbyina whitiorum
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Leptocoeliidae
Australocoelia palmata
Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
? Ctenoceras sp. Noetling 1884
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
? Nuculana viator
Ostracoda
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calmoniidae
Pennaia pauliana
Scyphozoa - Conulariida - Conulariidae
Conularia quichua
Paraconularia ulrichana
unclassified
Spongiophyton sp. Kraeusel 1954
Phycosiphon sp. von Fischer-Ooster 1858
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil State/province:Parana
Coordinates: 24.6° South, 50.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:83.5° South, 108.8° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Middle Devonian
Stage:Givetian 10 m.y. bin:Devonian 3
Key time interval:Early/Lower Givetian
Age range of interval:387.70000 - 385.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sao Domingos
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 20.5 m thick
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified siltstone
Secondary lithology: lithified "shale"
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:106996
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-03-30 19:24:27 Last modified:2011-03-30 03:24:27
Access level:the public Released:2011-03-30 19:24:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

35677. E. P. Bosetti, Y. Grahn, R. S. Horodyski, P. Mendlowicz Mauller, P. Breuer and C. Zabini. 2011. An earliest Givetian "Lilliput effect" in the Parana Basin, and the collapse of the Malvinokaffric shelly fauna. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 85:49-65 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]