West Quarry, Mokra, Czech Rep., collection from quadrat I7, bed 3 (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 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

• 'shallow carbonate ramp with abundant reef dwelling fauna...have the character of reef banks.' 'northern margin of Devonian back-arc or related basins'
• 'biosparite mainly, with larger fragments of stromatoporoids and corals floating within. Certain parts are bound with algae and stromatoporoids. The insoluble residue shows an increased amount of isometric quartz grains, up to 0.5mm in diameter.'

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

• '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.
Foraminifera
 Fusulinina - Colaniellidae
 Nodosinellacea - Earlandinitidae
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 stromatoporoid sponge
Stromatopora sp. 2
Taleastroma sp. Galloway 1957 stromatoporoid sponge
 Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae
Actinostroma sp. Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge
 Amphiporida - Amphiporidae
Amphipora moravica Zukalova 1971 stromatoporoid sponge
 Syringostromatida - Stachyoditidae
Stachyodes lagowiensis stromatoporoid sponge
 Syringostromatida - Syringostromatidae
Syringostroma vesiculosum stromatoporoid sponge
Syringostroma vesiculosum tenuilaminatum
Syringostroma vesiculosum stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Rugosa - Charactophyllidae
Alaiophyllum sp. Goryanov 1961 horn coral
given as 'Alaiophyllum jana', which does not appear to be a valid species name