Mokra M9: Frasnian, Czech Republic

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Issinella sp. Reitlinger 1954
Bisphaeridae
Bisphaera sp.
Parathuramminidae
Cribrosphaeroides sp.
Parathurammina sp.
Archaesphaeridae
Archaesphaera sp.
Vicinesphaera sp.
Rhodophyceae - Archaeolithophyllales - Palaoaplysinaceae
Palaeoaplysina sp. Krotov 1888
originally entered as "Palaeoplysina sp."
Rhodophyceae - Solenoporaceae
Solenoporaceae indet. Pia 1927
Stenolaemata - Cyclostomata - Entalophoridae
Umbrellina sp. Reuss 1872
originally entered as "Umbellina sp."
Stromatoporoidea - Amphiporida - Amphiporidae
Amphipora moravica Zukalova 1971
? Paramphipora tschussovensis
originally entered as "? Paramphipora tschussovensis"
Demospongiae - Protomonaxonida - Sollasellidae
Sphaeriella sp.
originally entered as "Sphaerella sp."
unclassified
Calcisphaera sp. Williamson 1880
Anthozoa - Favositida - Alveolitidae
Scoliopora denticulata (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851)
ssp. vassinoensis
see common names

Geography
Country:Czech Republic State/province:Moravia
Coordinates: 49.2° North, 16.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:20.9° South, 29.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Late/Upper Devonian
Stage:Frasnian 10 m.y. bin:Devonian 4
*Period:Late/Upper Devonian
*International age/stage:Early/Lower Famennian
Key time interval:Frasnian
Age range of interval:382.70000 - 372.20000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Vilemovice Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Conodonts indicating Famennian age are from fissure fills. The reef limestones are of Famennian age (Joachimski pers. comm 2004 and Babek et al. 2007)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray lithified wackestone
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: "light grey, massive, biohermal...wackestone."
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:3754
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:M. Sommers
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-09 15:52:19 Last modified:2009-10-16 03:52:38
Access level:the public Released:1999-08-09 15:52:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

191. O. Friakova, A. Galle, J. Hladil and J. Kalvoda. 1985. A lower Famennian fauna from the top of the reefoid limestones of Mokra (Moravia, Czechoslovakia). Newsletters on Stratigraphy 15(1):43-56 [T. Olszewski/T. Olszewski]

Secondary references:

30911 O. Babek, T. Prikryl, and J. Hladil. 2007. Progressive drowning of carbonate platform in the Moravo-Silesian Basin (Czech Republic) before the Frasnian/Famennian event: facies, compositional variations and gamma-ray spectrometry. Facies 53(2):293-316 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]