ammonites
Mucophyllum crateroides Community, Tajne suite, Podolia (Silurian to of Ukraine)

Where: Ukraine (49.2° N, 26.0° E: paleocoordinates 18.7° S, 15.9° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Tajne Suite Formation, Pridoli to Pridoli (418.7 - 391.9 Ma)

• Pridolian? - Gedinnian in the Tajne Suite of the Zygan series (Tiverian horizon/stage).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; argillaceous limestone

• "Occurs in detrital limestones that represent a soft, clayey bottom, with normal turbulence. Coelenterates occur close to each other (about 1 m apart) and are uniformly distributed. Assigned to the nearshore part of BA 3."
• "Occurs in detrital limestones that represent a soft, clayey bottom, with normal turbulence."

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 23488: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 15.07.2002