Upper Bostovian fauna at Bostow section (Devonian to of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.9° N, 21.1° E: paleocoordinates 39.7° S, 55.1° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Helderbergian to Helderbergian (419.2 - 407.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, green, yellow, blue, calcareous siltstone and sandstone

• "...grey, slightly marly siltstones...yellow-grey, greenish grey and bluish grey in colour; there are intercalations [of] coarser siltstones or sandstones containing crinoid columnals."

Collection methods: Bostovian section consists of borehole and some outcrops.

Primary reference: H. Tomczyk, M. Pajchlowa, and E. Tomczykowa. 1977. Poland. In A. Martinsson (ed.), The Silurian-Devonian boundary (IUGS Series A, No. 5) 65-83 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13879: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 30.04.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Collection is said to contain many of the same elements as the Lower Bostovian in this section, but no further detail is given. Only distinct taxa mentioned here.
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Trilobita
 Phacopida - Acastidae
Acastella sp., Acastoides sp., Acastava sp., ? Paracryphaeus sp., ? Pseudocryphaeus sp.
Acastella sp. Reed 1925 trilobite
Acastoides sp. Delo 1935 trilobite
Acastava sp. Richter 1954 trilobite
? Paracryphaeus sp. Gandl 1972 trilobite
Pseudocryphaeus or Paracryphaeus
? Pseudocryphaeus sp. Pillet 1954 trilobite
Pseudocryphaeus or Paracryphaeus
 Phacopida - Calmoniidae
Phacopina sp.
Phacopina sp. Clarke 1913 trilobite
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Digonus bostoviensis
 Proetida - Otarionidae
Otarion sp.
Otarion sp. Zenker 1833 trilobite
 Proetida - Proetidae
"Podolites rugulosus" = Warburgella (Rugulites) rugulosa
"Podolites rugulosus" = Warburgella (Rugulites) rugulosa Alth 1874 trilobite