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• coordinate based on unpublished field data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.
Crinoidea
 Cyathocrinida - Crotalocrinitidae
Crotalocrinitidae indet. Bassler 1938 Sea lily
 Diplobathrida - Rhodocrinitidae
Spyridiocrinus sp. Oehlert 1889 Sea lily
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Douvillinidae
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
"Leptaena bouei" = Leptaenopyxis bouei
"Leptaena bouei" = Leptaenopyxis bouei Barrande 1848
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
 Spiriferida - Xenomartiniidae
 Athyridida - Meristidae
 Athyridida - Rhynchospirinidae
 Atrypida - Karpinskiidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
 Rhynchonellida - Septalariidae
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
 Rhynchonellida - Glossinotoechiidae
"Uncinulus princeps" = Glossinotoechia princeps
"Uncinulus princeps" = Glossinotoechia princeps Barrande 1847
 Rhynchonellida - Uncinulidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Platyceratidae
"Platyceras gregarium" = Praenatica naticoides
"Platyceras gregarium" = Praenatica naticoides Roemer 1852 snail
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
 Proetida - Proetidae
"Cornuproetus aff. buchi" = Buchiproetus complanatus
"Cornuproetus aff. buchi" = Buchiproetus complanatus Barrande 1846 trilobite
 Proetida - Tropidocoryphidae
 Proetida - Otarionidae
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporellida - Stromatoporellidae
Stromatoporella cf. compta stromatoporoid sponge