Paranowakia Community, Lochkovian (Devonian of Italy)

Where: Sardinia, Italy (39.4° N, 8.5° E: paleocoordinates 54.7° S, 47.8° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• "Middle to Upper Lochkovian"

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone and shale

• General for this succession of communities: "Unlike the Carnic Alps, the Silurian-Devonian of Sardinia displays a far less variegated facies picture, being almost exclusively developed in shallow to deeper pelagic environments, with the minor exception of the Emsian Mt. Padenteddu mud mound." For this community: "A BA 5-6 position is suggested. Laterally bounded in part by the Kopaninoceras Community and the Graptolitic Shale Community."
• No specific data given for this community, but sequence is alternation of limestone and shale.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Ferretti, M. Gnoli, and G. B. Vai. 1999. Silurian to Lower Devonian communities of Sardinia. In A. J. Boucot and J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 271-281 [M. Foote/M. Foote/S. Kolbe]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26164: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 07.10.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Conodonta
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Conodonta indet.
Tentaculita
 Homoctenida - Paranowakiidae
Paranowakia sp.
Paranowakia sp. Boucek 1964
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet.
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Cephalopoda
 Nautiloidea -
Nautiloidea indet.
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid
orthocones
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet.
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Malacostraca
 Phyllocarida -
Phyllocarida indet.
Trilobita
 Proetida - Proetidae
? Erbenaspis erbeni