Pavilosta (Silurian of Latvia)

Also known as Ananaspis decora-Calymene latvica Community in E Baltic

Where: Latvia (56.9° N, 21.2° E: paleocoordinates 13.5° S, 0.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Pagegiai Formation, Kuressaare (421.3 - 419.2 Ma)

• `"Some dominant species closely related to or identical with contemporary Barrandian species Anasaspis fecuda, Harpidella novella, and Coniproetus ryckholti from the A. fecunda Zone of the Kopanina Fmn."

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, green, calcareous lime mudstone

• occurs in greenish-gray, calcareous mudstones interpreted as quiet water slope facies, and assigned to BA 4.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Also includes ostracodes (some of which are listed) and brachiopods of the Dayia Community.

Primary reference: R. Mannil and M. Rubel. 1999. Selected brachiopod and trilobite communities of the East Baltic Silurian. In A. J. Boucot, J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 253-270 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13729: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 22.04.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Ostracoda
 Podocopida -
Trilobita
 Proetida - Proetidae
Coniproetus cf. ryckholti Barrande 1846 trilobite
Proetus cf. signatus Lindström 1885 trilobite
 Proetida - Aulacopleuridae
 Proetida - Otarionidae
Otarion sp. Zenker 1833 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Ktenoura sp. Lane 1971 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
 Phacopida - Acastidae