Kirkidium knighti Community, Podolia: Ludlow, Ukraine

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Stromatoporoidea - Actinostromatida - Pseudolabechiidae
Desmostroma yakovlevi
Stromatoporoidea - Labechiida - Lophiostromatidae
Lophiostroma schmidti
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Spongophylloides perfecta
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Kyphophyllidae
Strombodes podolica
Anthozoa - Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae
Tryplasma hedstroemi
Anthozoa - Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora afabilis
subsp. zonata
Anthozoa - Favositida - Favositidae
Mesofavosites alveolitoides Sokolov 1952
subsp. konovskiensis
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Hebetoechiidae
Sphaerirhynchia wilsoni (de Sowerby 1816)
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa sowerbyi
Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
Gypidula magna
Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida - Pentameridae
Kirkidium knightii (Sowerby 1813)
recombined as Kirkidium knighti
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae
Didymothyris biohermica Rubel 1967
see common names

Geography
Country:Ukraine
Coordinates: 48.0° North, 26.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.0° South, 7.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Silurian Epoch:Ludlow
10 m.y. bin:Silurian 2
*Epoch:Late/Upper Ludlow
*Local age/stage:Tiritian - Ulichian
Key time interval:Ludlow
Age range of interval:427.40000 - 423.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Konovka "suite" and lower part of Tsviklevtsy "suite" in the Malinovtsy "series" (upper part of Tiritian "superhorizon" and lower part of Ulichian "superhorizon").
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: grainstone
Secondary lithology: marl
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "The rock type is a sand-sized, detrital limestone. Interbedded are marls and argillaceous, nodular limestones containing the Salopina lunata Community, which belongs to BA 2."
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: "Specimens disarticulated...rough water community...Environment is turbulent, from outside the littoral zone. [Interbedded community is BA 2.]"
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collection method comments: Abundances given for brachiopods.
Metadata
Database number:23376
Authorizer:M. Foote Enterer:M. Foote
Modifier:M. Foote Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-07-12 19:53:00 Last modified:2006-09-15 15:14:05
Access level:the public Released:2002-07-12 19:53:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6695. V. P. Gritsenko, A. A. Istchenko, L. I. Konstantinenko and P. D. Tsegelnjuk. 1999. Animal and plant communities of Podolia. In A. J. Boucot and J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 462-487 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]