Where: Austria (46.5° N, 13.0° E: paleocoordinates 43.5° S, 51.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Kellerwand Formation, Helderberg to Helderberg (416.0 - 393.3 Ma)
• Community said to range from Uppermost Lochkovian (upper Gedinnian) to Zlichovian (Emsian). PJW: This is now the Kellerwand.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
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 26203: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 08.10.2002, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cyanophyceae | |
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Foraminifera | |
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera
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Ulvophyceae | |
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Stromatoporoidea | |
Stromatoporella sp. Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Actinostroma sp. Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Anthozoa | |
Heliolites sp. Dana 1846 tabulate coral | |
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral | |
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral | |
Cephalopoda | |
Oncoceras sp. Hall 1847 | |
Tergomya | |
Calloconus sp. Perner 1903 | |
Palaeoscurria sp. Perner 1903 | |
Gastropoda | |
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Crassimarginata sp. Jhaveri 1969 snail | |
Katoptychia sp. Perner 1907 snail
Stylonema sp. Perner 1907 snail
Loxonema sp. Phillips 1841 snail
Aulacostrepsis sp. Perner 1907 snail | |
Murchisonioidea indet. Koken 1896 snail | |
Bicarina sp. Jhaveri 1969 snail | |
Orthonychia sp. Hall 1843 snail | |
Bellerophontoidea indet. M'Coy 1851 snail | |
Collina sp. Jhaveri 1969 snail | |
Boiotremus sp. HornĂ½ 1962 snail | |
Tropidodiscus sp. Meek and Worthen 1866 snail | |
"Straparollus (Euomphalus) sp." = Euomphalus, "Straparollus (Sinistrispira) sp." = Sinistrispira, Straparollus (Straparollus) sp.
"Straparollus (Euomphalus) sp." = Euomphalus Sowerby 1814 snail
"Straparollus (Sinistrispira) sp." = Sinistrispira Jhaveri 1969 snail
Straparollus (Straparollus) sp. de Montfort 1810 snail | |
"Straparollus (Serpulospira) sp." = Serpulospira
"Straparollus (Serpulospira) sp." = Serpulospira Cossmann 1915 snail | |
Platyceras sp. Conrad 1840 snail | |
Rostroconchia | |
Conocardium sp. Bronn 1835 | |
Bivalvia | |
Megalodon sp. Sowerby 1827 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Hypothyridina sp. Buckman 1906 | |
Uncinulus sp. Bayle 1878 | |
Najadospirifer sp. Havlicek 1957 | |
Quadrithyris sp. Havlicek 1957 | |
Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946 | |
Hysterolites sp. von Schlotheim 1820 | |
Rhynchospirina sp. Schuchert and LeVene 1929 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839 | |
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882 | |
Tentaculita | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
Breviscutellum sp. Snajdr 1960 trilobite
Weberopeltis aff. aculeata trilobite | |
Wolayella wolayae Erben 1966 trilobite | |
Calymene cf. reperta trilobite | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Conodonta | |
Spathognathodus sp. Branson and Mehl 1941 conodont | |
Icriodus sp. Branson and Mehl 1938 conodont |