Zelejowa, units A-B (Devonian of Poland)

Also known as Reef 1556

Where: Poland (50.7° N, 20.5° E: paleocoordinates 21.8° S, 35.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Sitkowka Member (Kowala Formation), Early/Lower Frasnian (383.7 - 382.4 Ma)

• Lower Frasnian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

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 82748: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.08.2008

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites maillieuxi tabulate coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporellida - Trupetostromatidae
Hermatostroma schlueteri1 stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Tienodictyidae
 Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae
Actinostroma bifarium1 stromatoporoid sponge