The Silurian of Sardinia

The present volume “The Silurian of Sardinia” is composed of two related components. The first part comprises seven contributions introduced by an historical overview on the studies already carried out on the Silurian faunas of Sardinia. It aims to delineate a comprehensive scenario of the Silurian of Sardinia within a proper geological setting. A global overview regarding the palaeoenvironment and palaeogeography is also provided. The second part of the volume consists of seven research papers that illustrate actual knowledge on major fossil groups encountered in the Silurian limestones and shales of southern Sardinia

Time and Life in the Silurian: a multidisciplinary approach - Field Trip Guide Book

This volume is the field trip guide book of the International Subcommission on Silurian Stratigraphy Field-Meeting 2009 in Sardinia. The meeting consists of three days of scientific communications in the seaside village of Villasimius, in the southeastern part of the island, followed by a field trip in southern Sardinia.Several sections and localities to be visited in the four days trip are here presented and discussed. These localities are a good summary of the Silurian of Sardinia, and have been selected either for their historical relevance or the amount of available data; also the easy accessibility was considered. Furthermore, tobetter understand the Silurian successions of Sardinia, also one Hirnantian locality and two Lochkovian outcrops are described.A brief geological and stratigraphical overview of the Silurian of Sardinia introduces to the excursion itinerary with locality descriptions. More detailed information on the geology, stratigraphy and palaeontology of the Silurian of Sardinia is provided in the twin volume “The Silurian of Sardinia” publishedtogether with this guide book.The first two days of the trip are devoted to the well exposed, almost continuous sections of the External Nappe Zone (southeastern Sardinia); then the excursionparticipants will move to the External Zone (southwestern Sardinia), where the Silurian outcrops are less impressive, but the fossiliferous content is in general more exciting

Time and Life in the Silurian: a multidisciplinary approach –Field Trip Guide Book

3nonenoneCORRADINI C; FERRETTI A; STORCH PCorradini, C; Ferretti, A; Storch,

Time and Life in the Silurian. A multidisciplinary approach. Subcommission on Silurian Stratigraphy Field Meeting 2009, (Sardinia, June 4-11, 2009), Proceedings

After about two years of hard work spent in planning and organizing the Conference “Time andlife in the Silurian: a multidisciplinary approach”, Field Meeting of the Subcommission on Silurian Stratigraphy, recently held in Sardinia in June 4-11, 2009, our effort has finally come to an end. The editing of the Conference Proceedings’ volume is now completed, as promised, within one-year by the end of the meeting. It has been a long but quite rewarding experience. The diverse papers here included are only apart of the multi-faceted contributions presented at the Conference sessions in Villasimius (Cagliari). Nevertheless, as also underlined by our Chairman, they reflect the multidisciplinary approach we strongly insisted on as a main topic when we proposed this meeting. We are firmly convinced that only by data integration and true comparison of results a real knowledge might effectively arise.This volume also offers a unique opportunity to expose our “special Silurian world” to non-Silurian or, more in general, to non-Palaeozoic people, and synchronize methods and approaches with those employed by specialists working in other time-slices. This has been possible thanks to the courtesyof the Società Paleontologica Italiana. Former President Ruggero Matteucci started with us this adventure accepting to reserve a volume of the Bollettino for our proceedings, present President Andrea Tintori gave us ample spaces to decide and allowed the download of pdf files at the Conference site. The Editorof the journal, Enrico Serpagli, kindly supervised our editorial efforts (but he is a Silurian-man, so it was not too hard to convince him). Furthermore, it is an occasion to make the Bollettino better known outside Italy, as most of the Silurian workers come from abroad. As usual tradition in a final phase of a project, it is also time of acknowledgements. First of all, this work has been made possible thanks to the precious support of reviewers who have made the real editorial work on the papers, with their accurate revisions, motivating criticism and addressed suggestions. We acknowledge their excellent contributions by naming them here: Bradley D. Cramer, Jiri Fryda, Lennart Jeppsson, Michael M. Joachimski, Markes E. Johnson, Jiri Kriz, Oliver Lehnert, David Loydell, Peep Männik, Michael J. Melchin, Ken T. Ratcliffe, Jia-Yu Rong, Mena Schemm-Gregory, Hans Peter Schönlaub, John A. Talent, Vojtech Turek and two anonymous reviewers. A great thank to single authors who have accepted our invitation in publishing in the BSPI and have strictly respected all editorial requests. Special thanks are also due to our respective families, who have tolerated us and our numerous changing moods of this last period. Finally, a message for the readers of the Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana. They might find a slightly different target in this volume from the usual papers generally included in the journal. This is in the light of the new style of the Bollettino, hoping to find in a not too far future more and more multidisciplinary contributions reflecting the diverse souls of the palaeontological debate developing now in the world

Time and Life in the Silurian: a multidisciplinary approach – Proceedings

3nonenoneCORRADINI, CARLO;FERRETTI A;STORCH P.; CORRADINI, CARLO; FERRETTI A; STORCH P.Corradini, Carlo; Ferretti, A; Storch, P

The Silurian of Sardinia: facies development and palaeoecology

Main features of the Silurian sequences exposed in Sardinia (Italy) are here described. Oldest sediments are represented by black shales, rich in graptolites, grading into a calcareous facies throughout the middle Silurian; however, the sequences exposed in the southeast and in the southwest are different, even if some similitude is evident. The spectacular variety of invertebrate fossils is briefly outlined and their environmental settings are discussed in the attempt of giving a contribution to the global picture of Silurian events

The Silurian of Sardinia

3nonenoneCORRADINI C; FERRETTI A; STORCH PCorradini, C; Ferretti, A; Storch,

Silurian palaeogeography of northern Gondwana: where was Sardinia at that time?

An unambiguous collocation of the actual European sectors in Silurian times is still far from accepted. The most recently published data appear to contradict and disprove current models. The position of Sardinia within this ill-defined scenario is still unclear