Where: Moravia, Czech Republic (49.2° N, 16.8° E: paleocoordinates 20.9° S, 29.4° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Vilemovice Member (Macocha Formation), Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)
• This is quadrant 18, from bed 14 and stratigraphic interval II.
•Conodonts indicating Famennian age are from fissure fills. The reef limestones are of Famennian age (Joachimski pers. comm 2004 and Babek et al. 2007)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lenticular, shelly/skeletal grainstone
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 39633: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 01.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Protozoa | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Stromatoporella sp. Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge | |
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Amphipora sp. Schulz 1883 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Calcisphaera | |
Calcisphaera indet. Williamson 1880 | |
Anthozoa | |
Rugosa indet. horn coral | |
Alaiophyllum jana horn coral |