Mokra M1 (Devonian of Czech Republic)

Where: Moravia, Czech Republic (49.2° N, 16.8° E: paleocoordinates 20.9° S, 29.4° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Vilemovice Limestone Formation, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• Conodonts indicating Famennian age are from fissure fills. The reef limestones are of Famennian age (Joachimski pers. comm 2004 and Babek et al. 2007)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• "light grey, massive, biohermal...packstone to wackestone."

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3761: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 09.08.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Also present are some fragments of gastropods and brachiopods."
Foraminifera
 Fusulinina - Archaesphaeridae
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Palmatolepidae
Palmatolepis minuta conodont
ssp. minuta
Palmatolepis minuta conodont
ssp. wolskae
Palmatolepis cf. regularis conodont
originally entered as "Palmatolepis cf. regularis"
 Ozarkodinida - Polygnathidae
Polygnathus sp. Hinde 1879 conodont
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Scoliopora denticulata Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 tabulate coral
ssp. vassinoensis
Stromatoporoidea
 Amphiporida - Amphiporidae
Amphipora moravica Zukalova 1971 stromatoporoid sponge
? Paramphipora tschussovensis stromatoporoid sponge
originally entered as "? Paramphipora tschussovensis"
 Labechiida - Labechiidae
Labechiidae indet. Nicholson 1879 stromatoporoid sponge