Coglians West Section, Hercynella Zone, Central Carnic Alps (Devonian of Italy)
Where: Italy (46.5° N, 13.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.9° S, 52.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Emsian (409.1 - 402.5 Ma)
• Age call is by Vai (partie la plus haute de l'Emsien inf.)
Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, black, gray limestone
• Sequence interpreted as largely biohermal.
• "Dark or black biohermal limestones, with plenty of gastropods, stratified into beds of several meters; thickness about 25 m"
Primary reference: G. B. Vai. 1967. Le Devonien inferieur biohermal des Alpes Carniques centrales. Memoires du Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres 33:285-300 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 26249: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 09.10.2002
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Taxonomic list
• Vai gives the entire list of species that have been named, including many that have not been properly vetted and many whose exact horizon cannot be determined, either because they were not precisely recorded or because they came from boulders collected before detailed sections had been worked out. I have included as certain occurrences only those species whose stratigraphic position is known precisely enough to place them into one of Vai's three zones and which have had some relatively modern treatment according to his table of citations. (This work was prepared in 1964, published in 1967, so "recent" must be interpreted accordingly, i.e. after about 1950.) Species whose position is known but which have not had modern treatment are included as questioned occurrences. I have omitted gastropods altogether, since all were in need of revision as of the date of this work, and since they were later revised by Jhaveri (1969, PBDB ref. 7262, PBDB collections 26207-27237).
Show authors, comments, and common names
unclassified | |
Conodonta | |
Prioniodina sp. Ulrich and Bassler 1925 conodont | |
Polygnathus sp. Hinde 1879 conodont | |
"Spathognathodus cf. steinhornensis" = Ozarkodina steinhornensis
"Spathognathodus cf. steinhornensis" = Ozarkodina steinhornensis Ziegler 1956 conodont | |
Spathognathodus sp. Branson and Mehl 1941 conodont
Trichonodella inconstans Ziegler 1960 conodont | |
Bivalvia | |
Trilobita | |
"Proetus (Proetus) bohemicus" = Bohemiproetus bohemicus
"Proetus (Proetus) bohemicus" = Bohemiproetus bohemicus Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite | |
Anthozoa | |
Tryplasma hercynia horn coral | |
Favistella (Denrostella) aff. vulgaris horn coral | |
Chlamydophyllum sp. Pocta 1902 horn coral | |
Lyrielasma subcaespitosa horn coral | |
Thamnopora reticulata Blainville 1830 tabulate coral | |
Alveolites crinalis tabulate coral | |
Heliolites (Heliolites) porosus Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Amphipora aff. ramosa Phillips 1841 stromatoporoid sponge | |
? Stromatoporella intscherpense stromatoporoid sponge | |
"Syringostroma cf. consimile" = Parallelostroma microporum
"Syringostroma cf. consimile" = Parallelostroma microporum Girty 1895 stromatoporoid sponge |