Where: Sardinia, Italy (39.5° N, 8.5° E: paleocoordinates 58.8° S, 51.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: M. transgrediens zone, Fluminimaggiore Formation, Pridoli (423.0 - 419.2 Ma)
• In this study, isolated blocks were correlated on basis of contained conodonts. Fluminimaggiore Fm., Upper Pridoli, M. transgrediens zone. Very similar composition to community in Bohemia suggests same age.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, gray wackestone and calcareous shale
•For this community: "Disarticulated shells occur in the dark micritic to biomicritic lenticular limestone which originally formed horzion in the calcareous shale."
Collection methods: Table 6 gives numerical abundances and inferred life habits of bivalves.
Primary reference: J. Kříž and E. Serpagli. 1993. Upper Silurian and lowermost Devonian Bivalvia of Bohemian type from south-western Sardinia. Bolletino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 32(3):289-347 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 26182: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 07.10.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Actinopteria serviens oyster
Cheiopteria bridgei oyster | |
Patrocardia sp. Fischer 1887 clam
Patrocardia "sp. A" Fischer 1887 clam | |
Dualina socialis clam
Paracardium eremita clam | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam |