Kowala railroad cut, units A-D (Devonian to of Poland)

Also known as Reef 3426

Where: Poland (50.8° N, 20.6° E: paleocoordinates 21.1° S, 34.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Sitkowka Member (Kowala Formation), Early/Lower Frasnian to Early/Lower Frasnian (383.7 - 379.5 Ma)

• units A-B (Upper Sitkowka), C (Kadzielnia) and D

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• biostromal limestones and bioherms

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, peel or thin section, sieve,

Primary reference: A. Nowinski. 1992. Tabulate corals from the Givetian and Frasnian of the Holy Cross Mountains and Silesian Upland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 37:183-216 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 82612: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.07.2008, edited by Loic Villier

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporida - Ferestromatoporidae
Ferestromatopora percanaliculata2 Lecompte 1951 stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora cooperi2 stromatoporoid sponge
 Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae
Actinostroma bifarium2 stromatoporoid sponge
Actinostroma crassepilatum2 stromatoporoid sponge
Actinostroma stellulatum2 Nicholson 1885 stromatoporoid sponge
 Syringostromatida - Syringostromatidae
Parallelopora kudebensis2 stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Aulocystidae
Aulocystis tikhyi tabulate coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Striatopora enigmatica n. sp. Nowinski 1992 tabulate coral
Thamnopora boloniensis tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae
Echinoidea
 Perischoechinoidea - Lepidocentridae
Lepidechinoides sp.1 Olsson 1912 sea urchin
Albertechinus devonicus1 Boczarowski 2001 sea urchin
Ophiuroidea
 Oegophiurida - Protasteridae
Furcaster cataphractus1 Boczarowski 2001 brittle star