Also known as Reef 3670
Where: Sweden (57.9° N, 18.6° E: paleocoordinates 23.8° S, 3.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Visby Formation, Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: E. W. Nield. 1982. The earliest Gotland reefs: two bioherms from the Lower Visby Beds (Upper Llandovery). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 39:149-164 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 77409: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Favositidae indet. Dana 1846 tabulate coral | |
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral | |
Halysitidae indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 tabulate coral
Catenipora sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral | |
Heliolitidae indet. Lindström 1876 tabulate coral | |
Rugosa indet. horn coral | |
Omphyma sp. Rafinesque and Clifford 1820 horn coral | |
Palaeocyclus sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 horn coral | |
Goniophyllidae indet. Dybowski 1873 horn coral | |
Ketophyllidae indet. Lecompte 1952 horn coral | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge | |
Stenolaemata | |
Ptilodictya lanceolata Goldfuss 1829 | |
Hallopora elegantula Hall 1851 | |
Lingulata | |
Lingulida indet. Waagen 1885 |