Where: Poland (51.0° N, 19.0° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 24.6° S, 11.8° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Famennian (372.1 - 368.5 Ma)
• This is earliest Famennian.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal lime mudstone and limestone
•southern Poland) were deposited in the proximal part of the
•PolisK WM/pasin trending NW–SE (Fig. 1). The
•basin was bordered from the north and east by the Byelo-
•russian Land (southwestern margin of the East European
•Craton), from the west by the Variscan Deformation Front,
•and from the south by the Moravian Karst and Sub-Carpa-
•thian Arch (Dadlez et al. 1994; Narkiewicz 1985, 1996;
•Narkiewicz and Hoffman 1989; Racki and Balin•ski 1998).
•The Devonian sequence of carbonates in the De•bnik area was
•deposited near the Sub-Carpathian Arch along the southern
•margin of the cratonic basin. Today these strata are usually
•poorly exposed in a small area centered around the village of
•Debnik."
Primary reference: A. Balinski. 2002. Frasnian-Famennian brachiopod extinction and recovery in southern Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 47(2):289-305 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35421: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 11.12.2003
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Taxonomic list
| unclassified | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
|
Crinisarina angelicoides Merriam 1940 | |
|
Schizophoria (Schizophoria) sp. King 1850 | |
|
Rhipidomellidae indet. Schuchert 1913 | |
| Strophomenata | |
| Lingulata | |