Favosites-Massive Stromatoporoid Community, Lower Devonian, Carnic Alps (Devonian to of Austria)

Where: Austria (46.5° N, 13.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.2° S, 52.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Helderbergian to Helderbergian (419.2 - 393.3 Ma)

• Said to interfinger with Karpinskia Community, which ranges from upper Gedinnian to Zlichovian.

Environment/lithology: marine; reef rocks

• "...interfingers with and is interbedded with Karpinskia and Icriodus Communities [in more wave energy than Karpinskia]. Ba 2-3 boundary. The community is found not only in small patch reef or biohermal mounds, but also as large (some hundreds of meters thick and some km long), significant, wave resistant, coalescent reef frames in the Carnic alps."
• See geology comments.

Primary reference: G. B. Vai. 1999. Wenlockian to Emsian communities of the Carnic Alps (Austria and Italy). in A. J. Boucot and J. D. Lawson, eds. Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian. Cambridge University Press. 282-304 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26201: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 08.10.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Ceratocephalus sp.
Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Heliolites sp.
Heliolites sp. Dana 1846 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp., Pachyfavosites sp.
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
Pachyfavosites sp. Sokolov 1952 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites (Caliapora) sp.
Alveolites (Caliapora) sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Coenitidae
Coenites sp.
Coenites sp. Eichwald 1829 tabulate coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporellida - Stromatoporellidae
Stromatoporella sp.
Stromatoporella sp. Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge
 Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae
Actinostroma sp.
Actinostroma sp. Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Monoplacophora
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Monoplacophora indet.
Monoplacophora indet. Knight 1952
Listed as "monoplacophorans (Chiton)", but this genus cannot be correct.
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
Eospirifer sp.
Eospirifer sp. Schuchert 1913
 Atrypida - Karpinskiidae
Karpinskia sp.
 Rhynchonellida - Uncinulidae
Uncinulus sp.
Uncinulus sp. Bayle 1878
Trilobita
 Proetida - Tropidocoryphidae
Pribylia sp.
Pribylia sp. Erben 1951 trilobite
 Proetida - Proetidae
Cornuproetus sp., Wolayella sp., Proetus sp.
Cornuproetus sp. Richter and Richter 1919 trilobite
Wolayella sp. Erben 1966 trilobite
Proetus sp. Steininger 1831 trilobite
 Proetida - Otarionidae
Otarion sp.
Otarion sp. Zenker 1833 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Weberopeltis sp.
Weberopeltis sp. Maksimova 1957 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Cheirurus sp.
Cheirurus sp. Beyrich 1845 trilobite