West Quarry, Mokra, Czech Rep., collection K2 (Devonian of Czech Republic)

Where: Moravia, Czech Republic (49.2° N, 16.8° E: paleocoordinates 18.8° S, 26.6° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Palmatolepis crepida zone, Vilemovice Limestone Formation, Early/Lower Famennian (376.1 - 370.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified wackestone and packstone

• light colored coral-stromatoporoid wackestone to packstone, with large coralla of Syringopora sp., small nodular or tabular coenostea of Stromatopora sp., and with stems of Amphipora moravica. Microfossils are represented by radiolarians and ostracodes. Fragements of thin-shelled brachiopods, crinoid ossicles, porifera spicules, are common amongst the small-size debris. Accumulations of porifera spicules - mostly monaxons - were locally important.

Primary reference: O. Friakova, A. Galle, J. Hladil and J. Kalvoda. 1985. A lower Famennian fauna from the top of the reefoid limestones of Mokra (Moravia, Czechoslovakia). Newsletters on Stratigraphy 15(1):43-56 [T. Olszewski/T. Olszewski]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3388: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Tom Olszewski on 31.07.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Scoliopora denticulata
Scoliopora denticulata Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 tabulate coral
vassinoensis
Stromatoporoidea
 Amphiporida - Amphiporidae
Amphipora moravica
Amphipora moravica Zukalova 1971 stromatoporoid sponge