Mokra M3: Frasnian, Czechia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Conodonta - Ozarkodinida - Palmatolepidae
originally entered as "Palmatolepis cf. regularis"
Palmatolepis minuta minuta Branson and Mehl 1933
Conodonta - Ozarkodinida - Palmatolepididae
Conodonta - Ozarkodinida - Palmatolepidae
Anthozoa - Favositida - Alveolitidae
Demospongiae - Protomonaxonida - Sollasellidae
originally entered as "Sphaerella sp."
Stromatoporoidea - Amphiporida - Amphiporidae
Stromatoporoidea - Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora sp. Goldfuss 1826
Stromatoporoidea - Clathrodictyida - Atelodictyidae
? Atelodictyon sp. Lecompte 1951
originally entered as "? Atelodictyon sp."
Stromatoporoidea - Syringostromatida - Syringostromatidae
Stromatoporoidea - Syringostromatida - Stachyoditidae
Stachyodes sp. Bargatzky 1881
Anthozoa - Rugosa
Rugosa indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Disphyllidae
Disphyllum sp. Fromentel 1861
sp. nov.
Anthozoa - Charactophyllidae
? Alaiophyllum sp. Goryanov 1961
sp. nov. - originally entered as "? Alaiophyllum sp."
Anthozoa - Favositida - Alveolitidae
Scoliopora denticulata (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851)
ssp. nov.
Natalophyllum sp. Radugin 1938
sp. nov.
Colaniellidae
Paratikhinellidae
Geinitzinidae
Geinitzinidae indet. Bozorgnia 1973
Parathuramminidae
Archaesphaeridae
Earlandinitidae
originally entered as "Tikhinella cf. fringa"
see common names

Geography
Country:Czechia State/province:Moravia
Coordinates: 49.2° North, 16.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.8° South, 11.5° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Devonian Epoch: Late 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: 382.31 - 372.15 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
Secondary lithology: "reef rocks"
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: "light grey, massive, biohermal...wackestone to packstone, locally bindstone."
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:"A quantity of ostracodes and crinoid ossicles."
Metadata
Database number:3752
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:M. Sommers
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-09 15:14:21 Last modified:2025-04-09 20:28:54
Access level:the public Released:1999-08-09 15:14:21
Creative Commons license:CC0
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]