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 7, from bed 3 and stratigraphic interval I.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; shelly/skeletal, sandy grainstone and reef rocks
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 39167: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 22.05.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Rhodophyceae | |
Solenoporaceae indet. Pia 1927 | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Taleastroma sp. Galloway 1957 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Actinostroma sp. Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Amphipora moravica Zukalova 1971 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Stachyodes lagowiensis stromatoporoid sponge | |
Syringostroma vesiculosum stromatoporoid sponge | |
Anthozoa | |
Alaiophyllum sp. Goryanov 1961 horn coral given as 'Alaiophyllum jana', which does not appear to be a valid species name
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