Pentamerus gothlandicus Community, upper Ternava suite, Podolia (Silurian of Ukraine)

Where: Ukraine (48.9° N, 26.5° E: paleocoordinates 24.7° S, 7.0° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Ternava Suite Formation, Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)

• Upper part of the Ternava suite, Yaruga "series" (Kitaigorod "superhorizon"). Demshin subsuite. See fig. 38.1 for correlation chart.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal limestone

• "High percentage of disarticulated valves indicates moderate turbulence, above the normal turbulence indicated for higher diversity communities. Geographic and stratigraphic positiion of community, its fauna, and its structural and textural characters suggest a position adjacent to the shallow shelf, outside of the infralittoral position."
• "organodetrital, nodular, and flaggy limestones"

Collection methods: Counts are given for brachiopods.

Primary reference: V. P. Gritsenko, A. A. Istchenko, L. I. Konstantinenko and P. D. Tsegelnjuk. 1999. Animal and plant communities of Podolia. In A. J. Boucot and J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 462-487 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 23365: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 12.07.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Protozoa
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Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Plasmoporidae
Plasmopora scita tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
 Favositida - Theciidae
Thecia podolica tabulate coral
 Rugosa - Chonophyllidae
Stromatoporoidea
 Clathrodictyida - Clathrodictyidae
Stelodictyon densum stromatoporoid sponge
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
Gypidula galeata Dalman 1828
 Pentamerida - Pentameridae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Isorthis slitensis Walmsley 1965
Resserella canalis Sowerby 1839
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Dalejina hybrida Sowerby 1839
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
"Cyrtia exporrecta" = Cyrtia exporrectus
"Cyrtia exporrecta" = Cyrtia exporrectus Wahlenberg 1818
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Meristina obtusa Dalman 1828
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchotrematidae
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Eophacops sp. Delo 1935 trilobite
sp. 1
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Dalmanites cf. caudatus BrĂ¼nnich 1781 trilobite
Ostracoda
 Leperditicopida - Leperditiidae
 Palaeocopida - Craspedobolbinidae
Chitinozoa
 Prosamatifera - Conochitinidae