Medobory region (Ternopil-Kamyanets-Podilskyy), serpulid-microbialite buildups (Miocene of Ukraine)

Also known as Reef 825

Where: Ukraine (49.0° N, 26.4° E: paleocoordinates 49.4° N, 25.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)

• Lower Sarmatian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• brackish environment
• The buildups are composed mainly of calcite precipitates. Skeletal organisms represented by serpulid tubes and bryozoans are of minor importance and comprise merely a few percent of the rock volume. They are overgrown with micritic peloidal microbialites that are the major reef component.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: M. Jasionowski. 2006. Facje i geochemia dolnosarmackich raf z polnocnych obrzezy Paratetydy na Roztoczu (Polska) i Miodoborach (Ukraina): implikacje paleosrodowiskowe [Facies and geochemistry of Lower Sarmatian reefs along the northern margins of the Parathetys in Roztocze (Poland) and Medobory (Ukraine) regions: paleoenvironmental implications. Przeglad Geologiczny 54(5):445-455 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 70569: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.03.2007, edited by Mihaela Krause

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Foraminifera
 Rotalioidea - Elphidiidae
Elphidiidae indet. Galloway 1933
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Nubeculariidae
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Titanoderma sp. Naegeli 1858
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites vindobonarum Kuehn 1927 stony coral
Porites vindobonarum prima
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea italica Defrance 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Heliastraeidae
Heliastraea defrancei Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Tarbellastraea reussiana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia friedbergi Dembinska-Rozkowska 1932 stony coral
Favia corollaris Reuss 1871 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Calliostoma sp. Swainson 1840 top snail
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Cerithium sp. Bruguière 1789 cerith snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae
Mohrensternia sp. Stoliczka 1868 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Hydrobiidae
Hydrobia sp. Hartmann 1821 snail
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Schizoporellidae
Schizoporella sp. Hincks 1877
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835