Syringopora fascicularis Community, Sokol subsuite, Podolia: Ludlow, Ukraine

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Hormogoneae - Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella problematica Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
algae
Anthozoa - Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites gothlandicus Lamarck 1816
Anthozoa - Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora fasicularis
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Weissermelia lindstroemi
Stromatoporoidea - Syringostromatida - Coenostromatidae
Parallelostroma malinovzyensis
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Draboviidae
Salopina lunata (Sowerby 1839)
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula (Sowerby 1839)
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophochonetidae
Protochonetes podolicus
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Shaleriidae
Shaleria delicata (Harper and Boucot 1978)
synonym of Shaleria (Shaleriella) ezerensis
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Calymene spectabilis
Trilobita - Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Encrinurus macrourus
Trilobita - Proetida - Proetidae
Proetus signatus Lindström 1885
see common names

Geography
Country:Ukraine
Coordinates: 48.5° North, 26.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:21.4° South, 7.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Silurian Epoch:Ludlow
10 m.y. bin:Silurian 2
*Local age/stage:Ulichian - Ulichian
Key time interval:Ludlow
Age range of interval:427.40000 - 423.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sokol Subsuite
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Sokol subsuite of the Tsviklevtsy suite, Malinovtsy series (Ulichian superhorizon).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: argillaceous lime mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "The sediment was soft, clayey limemud that became lithified into nodular, argillaceous limestones."
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: "This authochthonous community is widely distributed, presumably from larvae. Branching coral colonies and intact trilobites indicate weak turbulence...Community assigned to outer part of BA 3 becaue it alternates with Kirkidium knighti and Didymothyris didyma Communities."
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:23475
Authorizer:M. Foote Enterer:M. Foote
Modifier:M. Foote Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-07-15 12:43:06 Last modified:2006-09-15 15:14:05
Access level:the public Released:2002-07-15 12:43:06
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6695. V. P. Gritsenko, A. A. Istchenko, L. I. Konstantinenko and P. D. Tsegelnjuk. 1999. Animal and plant communities of Podolia. In A. J. Boucot and J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 462-487 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]