West Quarry, Mokra, Czech Rep., collection from quadrat I3, bed 0 (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: Macocha Formation, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• This is quadrant 3, from bed 0 and stratigraphic interval I.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; intraclastic, shelly/skeletal wackestone

• 'shallow carbonate ramp with abundant reef dwelling fauna...have the character of reef banks.' 'northern margin of Devonian back-arc or related basins'
• 'biomicritic limestone with transitions into biointramicrite with fine horizontal bedding. At the base, there is a thin biosparite layer, in the upward direction micrite prevails. In the uppermost part, the rock passes into biosparite.'

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: '4 meter squared quadrants were reconstructed from paleo-sea floor fragments.'

Primary reference: P. Cejchan and J. Hladil. 1996. Searching for extinction/recovery gradients: the Frasnian-Fammennian interval, Mokra section, Moravia, central Europe. in M. B. Hart, ed. Biotic Recovery from Mass Extinction Events (Geological Society of London Special Publication) 120:135-162 [A. Miller/J. Sessa/J. Sessa]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39163: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 22.05.2004

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Taxonomic list

• 'Abundance is the number of individuals for solitary organisms or the number of colonies for clonal organisms.' Paper also gives occupied area for each taxon, and estimates skeletal mass produced per year and biomass produced per year -- I have reported abundance values.
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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonellidae indet.
Rhynchonellidae indet. Gray 1848
Rhychonellidae sp. 2
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Beresellaceae
Kamaena spp.
Kamaena spp. Antropov 1967
Foraminifera
 Fusulinina - Colaniellidae
Multiseptida corallina
 Endothyroidea - Loeblichiidae
Nanicella porrecta
Nanicella porrecta Bykova 1952