West Quarry, Mokra, Czech Rep., collection from quadrat III21, bed 17 (Devonian of Czech Republic)

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: Macocha Formation, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• This is quadrant 21, from bed 17 and stratigraphic interval III.

•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; hardground, shelly/skeletal grainstone

• 'shallow carbonate ramp with abundant reef dwelling fauna...have the character of reef banks.' 'northern margin of Devonian back-arc or related basins'
• 'biosparite limestone, zonal alterations of carbonate near the upper surface of the layer are evidence for exposure of the surface as a hardground.'

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 39636: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 01.06.2004

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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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Anthozoa
 Rugosa - Charactophyllidae
Alaiophyllum jana
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
Disphyllum veronica
 Stauriida - Kyphophyllidae
Tabulophyllum maria
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Scoliopora rachitiforma, Scoliopora vassinoensis, Natalophyllum perspicuum
Scoliopora vassinoensis tabulate coral
Natalophyllum perspicuum tabulate coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Syringostromatida - Coenostromatidae
Habrostroma incrustans
Habrostroma incrustans stromatoporoid sponge
 Syringostromatida - Stachyoditidae
Stachyodes sp.
Stachyodes sp. Bargatzky 1881 stromatoporoid sponge
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Solenoporaceae indet.
Foraminifera
 Fusulinina - Colaniellidae
Multiseptida corallina
 Fusulinina - Tournayellidae
Tournayellidae indet.
 Fusulinina - Parathuramminidae
Parathurammina spp.