Poslovice, unit B (Devonian of Poland)

Also known as Reef 3840

Where: Poland (50.8° N, 20.6° E: paleocoordinates 23.6° S, 37.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Jazwica Member (Kowala Formation), Late/Upper Givetian (380.2 - 382.7 Ma)

• Late Givetian, central Dyminy Reef area

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

• "Poslowice facies": medium-layered, fossiliferous calcilutites and calcarenites, mainly echinoderm-spiculite wackestones and packstones, with interstratified biostromes dominated by rugosan bafflestones

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: A. Nowinski. 1992. Tabulate corals from the Givetian and Frasnian of the Holy Cross Mountains and Silesian Upland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 37:183-216 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 82667: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 31.07.2008, edited by Loic Villier

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora boloniensis tabulate coral
Gracilopora vermicularis tabulate coral
Cladopora gracilis tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolitella fecunda tabulate coral
Alveolitella polygona n. sp. tabulate coral
Alveolites obtortus tabulate coral
Ophiuroidea
 Oegophiurida - Protasteridae
Furcaster cataphractus1 Boczarowski 2001 brittle star
Weigeltura austera1 Boczarowski 2001 brittle star
Stenuroidea
  - Klasmuridae
Pectenura excubitor1 Boczarowski 2001
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Stuertzaster utroquecognitus1 Boczarowski 2001
Holothuroidea
 Dendrochirotida - Calclamnidae
"Eocaudina septaforminalis" = Eocaudina septaforaminalis1
"Eocaudina septaforminalis" = Eocaudina septaforaminalis1 Martin 1952 sea cucumber
 Dendrochirotida - Cucumariidae
Mercedescaudina langeri1 Boczarowski 2001 sea cucumber
Palaeohemioedema cognata1 Boczarowski 2001 sea cucumber
 Apodida - Achistridae
Achistrum multiperforatum1 Beckmann 1965 sea cucumber
Ophiocistioidea
  - Rotasacciidae
Protocaudina dulcis1 Boczarowski 2001
  - Linguaserridae
Linguaserra ligula1 Langer 1991
Echinoidea
 Perischoechinoidea - Lepidocentridae
Lepidechinoides sp.1 Olsson 1912 sea urchin
Albertechinus devonicus1 Boczarowski 2001 sea urchin
Strophomenata
 Productida - Sentosiidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae