Laskowa Gora, unit A (Devonian of Poland)

Also known as Reef 3842

Where: Poland (50.9° N, 20.5° E: paleocoordinates 22.9° S, 36.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Laskowa Gora Member (Kowala Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• Kostomloty transitional zone of the Kielce (Dyminy) reef

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• marly coral biostromes and detrital beds of the lower reef slope

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 83034: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.08.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Sentosiidae
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Stringocephalidae
Stringocephalus burtini2 Defrance 1825
Trilobita
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Demospongiae
 Hadromerida - Suberitidae
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Favositidae
Pachyfavosites polonicus Nowinski 1992 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Striatopora tenuis tabulate coral
Thamnopora boloniensis tabulate coral
Thamnopora cervicornis tabulate coral
Thamnopora micropora tabulate coral
Gracilopora vermicularis tabulate coral
Hillaepora circulipora tabulate coral
 Favositida - Coenitidae
Coenites clathratus tabulate coral
subsp. minor
Coenites laminosa tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites compressus tabulate coral
Alveolites elongatus tabulate coral
Alveolites cf. lecomptei tabulate coral
Alveolites parvus tabulate coral
Alveolites suborbicularis Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral