West Quarry, Mokra, Czech Rep., collection from quadrat II10 lower part of bed 5 (Devonian to of Czech Republic)

Where: Moravia, Czech Republic (49.2° N, 16.8° E: paleocoordinates 17.7° S, 25.3° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Macocha Formation, Frasnian to Frasnian (382.7 - 358.9 Ma)

• This is quadrant 10, from bed 5 and stratigraphic interval II.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; framestone and claystone

• 'shallow carbonate ramp with abundant reef dwelling fauna...have the character of reef banks.' 'northern margin of Devonian back-arc or related basins'
• 'framestones built of complicated sheets of corals and, in parts, stromatoporoids. The intercoral spaces are filled with carbonate claystones or micritic limestones with Moravamminidae indet. and rarely Umbellina sp. Depressions at the top of the framestone layer are often filled with coquina of thin-walled smooth brachiopods (unidentified broken valves).'

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: '4 meter squared quadrants were reconstructed from paleo-sea floor fragments.'

Primary reference: P. Cejchan and J. Hladil. 1996. Searching for extinction/recovery gradients: the Frasnian-Fammennian interval, Mokra section, Moravia, central Europe. in M. B. Hart, ed. Biotic Recovery from Mass Extinction Events (Geological Society of London Special Publication) 120:135-162 [A. Miller/J. Sessa/J. Sessa]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 39336: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 26.05.2004

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Taxonomic list

• 'Abundance is the number of individuals for solitary organisms or the number of colonies for clonal organisms.' Paper also gives occupied area for each taxon, and estimates skeletal mass produced per year and biomass produced per year -- I have reported abundance values.
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unclassified
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Moravamminidae indet., Umbellina sp.
Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora volkensis
Syringopora volkensis tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Aulocystidae
Aulostegites sp.
Aulostegites sp. Lejeune and Pel 1973 tabulate coral
unclassified
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Porifera indet.
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Porifera sp. 1
Stromatoporoidea
 Labechiida - Labechiidae
Labechia cumularis
Labechia cumularis stromatoporoid sponge
 Clathrodictyida - Tienodictyidae
Tienodictyon sp.
Tienodictyon sp. Yabe and Sugiyama 1941 stromatoporoid sponge
 Amphiporida - Amphiporidae
Amphipora tschussovensis, Amphipora moravica
Amphipora tschussovensis stromatoporoid sponge
Amphipora moravica Zukalova 1971 stromatoporoid sponge
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spiriferidae indet.
Spiriferidae indet. King 1846
Spiriferidae sp. 1
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Beresellaceae
Kamaena spp.
Kamaena spp. Antropov 1967