West Quarry, Mokra, Czech Rep., collection from quadrat 27, Lisen FM (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: Lisen Formation, Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• This is quadrant 27, from stratigraphic interval V.

•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; 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'

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 39672: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 02.06.2004

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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.
Crinoidea
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Cyclocyclicus sp. Yeltysheva 1955 Sea lily
Ostracoda
 Podocopa -
Podocopa sp. Sars 1865 ostracod
Podocopa sp. 2
Rhodophyceae
 Archaeolithophyllales - Palaoaplysinaceae
Palaeoaplysina sp. Krotov 1888
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Beresellaceae
Kamaena spp. Antropov 1967
Foraminifera
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 Fusulinina - Parathuramminidae
 Life -
Bacteria indet. Woese et al. 1990