Principal Fossils of the Karpinskia conjugula Zone, Central Carnic Alps (Devonian to of Italy)
Where: Italy (46.5° N, 13.0° E: paleocoordinates 45.5° S, 53.0° E)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Pragian to Pragian (410.8 - 402.5 Ma)
• Age call is by Vai (Siegenian sup.- Emsian inf.).
Environment/lithology: marine; dolomitic limestone and gray reef rocks
• Entire sequence interpreted as biohermal.
• "Limestones, sometimes dolomitic, and gray, biohermal organogenic calcirudites, without stratification; thickness 300 m"
Primary reference: G. B. Vai. 1965. Le Devonien inferieur biohermal des Alpes Carniques Centrales. Memoires du Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Minieres 33:79-80 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 26255: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 09.10.2002
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Taxonomic list
• The most significant or characteristic taxa are listed here by Vai. See PBDB collections 26245-26253 for more information. Here I have followed Vai's summary list without questioning any of his occurrences.
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Crinoidea | |
Crotalocrinitidae indet. Bassler 1938 Sea lily | |
Spyridiocrinus sp. Oehlert 1889 Sea lily | |
Strophomenata | |
"Leptaena bouei" = Leptaenopyxis bouei
"Leptaena bouei" = Leptaenopyxis bouei Barrande 1848 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Uncinulus princeps" = Glossinotoechia princeps
"Uncinulus princeps" = Glossinotoechia princeps Barrande 1847 | |
Gastropoda | |
"Platyceras gregarium" = Praenatica naticoides
"Platyceras gregarium" = Praenatica naticoides Roemer 1852 snail | |
Trilobita | |
Scutellum aff. kutorgai trilobite
Weberopeltis aff. aculeata trilobite | |
"Cornuproetus aff. buchi" = Buchiproetus complanatus
"Cornuproetus aff. buchi" = Buchiproetus complanatus Barrande 1846 trilobite | |
Pribylia austriaca trilobite | |
Otarion convexum trilobite | |
Calymene reperta trilobite | |
Cheirurus (Crotalocephalus) yaworski trilobite | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Stromatoporella cf. compta stromatoporoid sponge |