Cardiola level, Plockener facies, Cellon-Lawineriss section: Ludfordian, Austria

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Pterobranchia - Graptoloidea - Monograptidae
Monograptus bohemicus (Barrande 1850)
recombined as Bohemograptus bohemicus
Monograptus haupti
Monograptus dubius
Monograptus aff. haupti
"M. n sp. aff. haupti"
Monograptus butovicensis
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Septatrypidae
Septatrypa sappho
Dubaria megaerella
synonym of Septatrypa
Cephalopoda - Orthocerida - Sphaerorthoceratidae
Hemicosmorthoceras celloni
Bivalvia - Cyrtodontida - Cardiolidae
Cardiola cornucopiae
Cardiola cf. consanguis
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
Raphiophorus roualti
see common names

Geography
Country:Austria
Coordinates: 46.7° North, 13.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:6.7° South, 19.1° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Silurian Epoch:Ludlow
Stage:Ludfordian 10 m.y. bin:Silurian 2
*Epoch:Late/Upper Ludlow
*International age/stage:Early/Lower Ludfordian
Key time interval:Ludfordian Zone: Polygnathoides siluricus
Age range of interval:425.60000 - 423.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal "limestone"
Secondary lithology: "shale"
Lithology description: "Plockener facies = dominantly biocalcarenitic and bioruditic crinoidal limestones with thicknesses of about 50 m." [Section diagram indicates shales and slaty marls as well for these beds.]
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:13908
Authorizer:M. Foote Enterer:M. Foote
Modifier:M. Foote Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-05-03 04:01:27 Last modified:2006-09-15 15:13:14
Access level:the public Released:2002-05-03 04:01:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6167. H. W. Fluegel, H. Jaeger, H. P. Schoenlaub and G. B. Vai. 1977. Carnic Alps. in A. Martinsson, ed. The Silurian-Devonian boundary (IUGS, Series A, Number 5). Schweizerbart'sche, Stuttgart. 126-142 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]