Gora Zamkova, unit A2 (Devonian of Poland)

Also known as Reef 3840

Where: Poland (50.7° N, 20.5° E: paleocoordinates 23.7° S, 37.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jazwica Member (Kowala Formation), Late/Upper Givetian (380.2 - 382.7 Ma)

• Late Givetian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Amphiporid bafflestones, with shell-rich intercalations (A1), succeeded by thicker stromatoporoid biostromes (bafflestones/floatstones) containing thin micrite-shaly, brachiopod- and crinoid-rich interbeds (A2)

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Racki. 1992. Brachiopod assemblages in the Devonian Kowala Formation of the Holy Cross Mountains. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 37:297-357 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 82940: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.08.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Stromatoporoidea
 Clathrodictyida - Tienodictyidae
Tienodictyon zonatum
Tienodictyon zonatum stromatoporoid sponge
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
Productella cf. subaculeata
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurispina inflata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Athyris ex gr. concentrica
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Ripidiorhynchus aff. pskovensis
 Rhynchonellida - Pugnacidae
? Parapugnax sp.