Karpinskia Community, Lower Devonian, Carnic Alps (Devonian to of Austria)

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

• "Most of the brachiopods are articulated...in nest-like settings, filled with poorly sorted, coarse grained mechanical accumulations of crinoidal, stromatoporoidal, and tabulate debris. This suggests rough water, high oxygen in a shallow, inner BA 3 environment."
• "best developed in massive, shallow water, coarse grained, bioclastic limestones of the reef complex environment (mainly reef top, from the reef rim to the back reef edge)."

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
  - Garwoodiaceae
Garwoodia sp. Wood 1941
algae
Foraminifera
 Foraminiferida -
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera Eichwald 1830 foram
agglutinated
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Codiaceae
Lancicula sp. Maslov 1956
algae
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporellida - Stromatoporellidae
Stromatoporella sp. Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge
 Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae
Actinostroma sp. Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Heliolites sp. Dana 1846 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral
Cephalopoda
 Oncocerida - Oncoceratidae
Oncoceras sp. Hall 1847
Tergomya
 Archinacellida - Metoptomatidae
Calloconus sp. Perner 1903
 Scenelloidea - Scenellidae
Palaeoscurria sp. Perner 1903
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
"etc."
 Murchisoniina - Crassimarginatidae
Crassimarginata sp. Jhaveri 1969 snail
 Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
Katoptychia sp. Perner 1907 snail
Stylonema sp. Perner 1907 snail
Loxonema sp. Phillips 1841 snail
Aulacostrepsis sp. Perner 1907 snail
 Murchisoniina -
Murchisonioidea indet. Koken 1896 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Bicarina sp. Jhaveri 1969 snail
 Cyrtoneritida - Orthonychiidae
Orthonychia sp. Hall 1843 snail
 Bellerophontida -
Bellerophontoidea indet. M'Coy 1851 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Collina sp. Jhaveri 1969 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bucaniidae
Boiotremus sp. HornĂ½ 1962 snail
 Bellerophontida - Tropidodiscidae
Tropidodiscus sp. Meek and Worthen 1866 snail
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
"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
 Euomphalina -
"Straparollus (Serpulospira) sp." = Serpulospira
"Straparollus (Serpulospira) sp." = Serpulospira Cossmann 1915 snail
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
Platyceras sp. Conrad 1840 snail
Rostroconchia
 Conocardiida - Conocardiidae
Conocardium sp. Bronn 1835
Bivalvia
 Megalodontida - Megalodontidae
Megalodon sp. Sowerby 1827 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Pugnacidae
 Rhynchonellida - Hypothyridinidae
Hypothyridina sp. Buckman 1906
 Rhynchonellida - Glossinotoechiidae
 Rhynchonellida - Uncinulidae
 Atrypida - Carinatinidae
 Atrypida - Karpinskiidae
 Spiriferida - Elythynidae
Najadospirifer sp. Havlicek 1957
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
Eospirifer sp. Schuchert 1913
Striispirifer sp. Cooper and Muir-Wood 1951
 Spiriferida - Xenomartiniidae
Quadrithyris sp. Havlicek 1957
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946
 Spiriferida - Hysterolitidae
Hysterolites sp. von Schlotheim 1820
 Athyridida - Rhynchospirinidae
Rhynchospirina sp. Schuchert and LeVene 1929
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839
 Trepostomata -
Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882
Tentaculita
 Nowakiida - Nowakiidae
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Breviscutellum sp. Snajdr 1960 trilobite
 Proetida - Proetidae
Wolayella wolayae Erben 1966 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Conodonta
  -
Spathognathodus sp. Branson and Mehl 1941 conodont
 Prioniodontida - Icriodontidae
Icriodus sp. Branson and Mehl 1938 conodont