Where: Belarus (52.0° N, 24.0° E: paleocoordinates 17.0° S, 3.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Pridoli (423.0 - 419.2 Ma)
• Upper Mukhavets Subformation and Kustin Formation.
Environment/lithology: marine; dolomitic, shelly/skeletal marl and dolomitic, shelly/skeletal shale
Collection methods: core
• Abundances given for dominant brachiopods and bryozoans.
Primary reference: V. I. Pushkin and T. L. Modzalevskaya. 1999. Silurian and Lower Devonian brachiopod and bryozoan communities of southwestern Byelorussia. In A. J. Boucot and J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 496-509 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 23655: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 18.07.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Strophomenata | |
? Strophochonetes sp. Muir-Wood 1962 | |
Protochonetes sp. n. sp.
| |
"Shaleriella tenuis" = Shaleria (Shaleriella), "Mesodouvillina cf. dzwinogrodensis" = Shaleria dzwinogrodensis
"Shaleriella tenuis" = Shaleria (Shaleriella)
"Mesodouvillina cf. dzwinogrodensis" = Shaleria dzwinogrodensis Kozlowski 1929 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Howellella cf. elegans Muir-Wood 1925 | |
? Glassina sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Salopina submedia McLearn 1924 | |
Dalejina sp. n. sp., Dalejina hybrida
Dalejina sp. n. sp. Havlicek 1953
Dalejina hybrida Sowerby 1839 | |
? Resserella sp. Bancroft 1928
"Isorthis canaliculata" = Levenea canaliculata Lindström 1861 | |
Dolerorthis cf. rustica Sowerby 1839 | |
Stenolaemata | |
"Lioclema exile" = Leioclema
"Lioclema exile" = Leioclema | |
Cephalopoda | |
Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797 | |
Trilobita | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite | |
Anthozoa | |
Tuvaelites sp. Chekhovich 1971 tabulate coral | |
Rotalites sp. Leleshus 1974 tabulate coral | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Lophiostroma sp. Nicholson 1891 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Demospongiae | |
Barrandeolites sp. Sokolov and Prantl 1965 chaetetid sponge |