West Quarry, Mokra, Czech Rep., collection from quadrat II17, bed 12 (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 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

• shallow carbonate ramp with abundant reef dwelling fauna...have the character of reef banks.' 'northern margin of Devonian back-arc or related basins'
• 'biosparite limestone packed with finely crushed fossils, bioclasts are often micritized.'

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

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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.
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
Stromatoporoidea
 Labechiida - Labechiidae
Labechia cumularis stromatoporoid sponge
 Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae
Actinostroma sp. Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge
 Amphiporida - Amphiporidae
Amphipora tschussovensis stromatoporoid sponge
Amphipora moravica Zukalova 1971 stromatoporoid sponge
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Foraminifera
 Fusulinina - Archaesphaeridae
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Beresellaceae
Kamaena spp. Antropov 1967