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 Member (Macocha Formation), Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)
• This is quadrant 17, from the uppermost part of bed 12 and stratigraphic interval II.
•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; reef rocks and grainstone
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 39632: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 01.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hormogoneae | |
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878 | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Labechia cumularis stromatoporoid sponge | |
Actinostroma sp. Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Amphipora tschussovensis stromatoporoid sponge
Amphipora moravica Zukalova 1971 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Foraminifera | |
Chlorophyceae | |
Kamaena spp. Antropov 1967 |