Pachypora, Upper Visby Beds, Ireviken (Silurian of Sweden)

Also known as Reef 1799

Where: Gotland, Sweden (57.8° N, 18.6° E: paleocoordinates 21.3° S, 2.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Visby Formation, Sheinwoodian (433.4 - 430.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

• Collected from the Silurian sequence of Gotland, (about 500 m Thick),

•Limestone-marls

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, peel or thin section

• Plusquellec collected the specimens at Ireviken 1981 and A. Le Hérissé collected the specimens at Lundsklint bed S151 in 1998

Primary reference: Y. Plusquellec, F. Tourneur, and A. Le Hérissé. 2007. Structure and micro structure of Pachypora lamellicornis Lindström, 1873, a tabulate coral from the Silurian of Gotland, Sweden. In B. Hubann, W. E. Piller (eds.), Fossil Corals and Sponges: Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera, Graz 2003.- Österr. Akad. Wiss. Schriftenr. Erdwiss. Komm 17:67-83 [W. Kiessling/F. Reichel/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78968: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Falko Reichel on 20.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Pachypora lamellicornis Plusquellec et al. 2007 tabulate coral