Raclawka Valley, western slope, Debnik Anticline, Cracow Region (Devonian of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.2° N, 19.7° E: paleocoordinates 15.8° S, 26.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Raclawka Formation (Rudawa Group), Late/Upper Devonian (382.7 - 358.9 Ma)

• exact stratigraphic position unclear; above the Quasiendothyra communis - Quasiendothyra regularis foraminiferal zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified, intraclastic, shelly/skeletal grainstone

• dark grainstones; dark intrabiosparites

Preservation: replaced with dolomite

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: P. J. Wolniewicz. 2009. Late Famennian stromatoporoids from Debnik Anticline, southern Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 54(2):337-350 [W. Kiessling/P. Wolniewicz]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90034: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Pawel Wolniewicz on 01.07.2009

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Taxonomic list

Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Parachaetetes sp. Deninger 1906
Stromatoporoidea
 Clathrodictyida - Gerronostromatidae
Gerronostroma raclaviense n. sp. Wolniewicz 2009 stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral