Dayia Community at 1193.4 m in Taurage-11 borehole: Pridoli, Lithuania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Lingulata - Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Dayiidae
Dayia navicula (Sowerby 1839)
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Isorthis ovalis
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophochonetidae
Protochonetes stonishkensis
see common names

Geography
Country:Lithuania
Coordinates: 55.3° North, 22.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:15.1° South, 0.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Silurian Epoch: Pridoli
10 m.y. bin: Silurian 2
Key time interval: Pridoli Conodont zone:  Ozarkodina remscheidensis
Age range of interval: 423 - 419.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Jura
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Pridolian age based on fact that this overlies Minija Formation which is Lower Pridolian, and that D. Community said to range from Ludlovian to Pridolian.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,green marl
Secondary lithology: argillaceous "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "Occurs in greenish-gray and gray marls with interbeds of argillaceous limestones belonging to the fourth facies zones...Sedimentation...took place in a pericratonic basin under conditions of increased terrigenous material supply. [Conflicting evidence on depth discussed in detail: BA assignment difficult: perhaps 2,3, or 4]. More than 95% of D. n. specimens articulated..[indicating] quiet water...below or at wave base under dysaerobic conditions (suggested by gray...marl)."
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collection method comments: I have not included abundance data given by author.
Metadata
Database number:13767
Authorizer:M. Foote Enterer:M. Foote
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-04-24 12:43:32 Last modified:2016-07-12 23:10:50
Access level:the public Released:2002-04-24 12:43:32
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6146. P. Musteikis and J. J. Paskevicius. 1999. Brachiopod communities of the Lithuanian Silurian. In A. J. Boucot, J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 305-326 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]