Rhegmaphyllum slitense Community, Muksha subsuite, Podolia (Silurian of Ukraine)

Where: Ukraine (48.6° N, 26.7° E: paleocoordinates 21.3° S, 7.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Muksha Subsuite Formation, Ludlow (427.4 - 423.0 Ma)

• Muksha subsuite of the Bagovitsa suite of the Yaruga series (Tiritian stage/horizon). See correlation chart, fig. 38.1.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; dolomitic, gray marl

• "Environment thought to be low turbulence in view of sediment graint size. Abundance and diversity of coelenterates indicates normal salinity. Presence of syngenetic dolomite consistent with warm water environment, as is the biogeography of this region. Populations spottily distributed...Colony sizes small, spherical...and branching...conical...BA 2 because its position is like that of the Rhynchonella cuneata Comm., and it is interbedded with T. sarremica, Hedstroemia-Rothpletzella and Chaetocladus capillatus Comm's."
• "Occurs in brownish-gray, detrital marls."

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 23463: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 15.07.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Ancillotoechia bidendata, Rhynchotreta cuneata
Rhynchotreta cuneata Dalman 1828
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella cuneata
Trilobita
 Proetida - Proetidae
Warburgella podolica
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Streptelasmatidae
Rhegmaphyllum slitense
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
"Taxopora xenia" = Cladopora
"Taxopora xenia" = Cladopora tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Paleofavosites tersus
Paleofavosites tersus tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Subalveolitella repentina
Subalveolitella repentina Sokolov 1955 tabulate coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Clathrodictyida - Actinodictyidae
Ecclimadictyon virgosum
Ecclimadictyon virgosum stromatoporoid sponge
Demospongiae
 Chaetetida - Desmidoporidae
Desmidopora alveolaris
Desmidopora alveolaris chaetetid sponge