Czarnow, unit A: Givetian, Poland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Favositida - Alveolitidae
Caliapora battersbyi
and subsp. minor
Caliapora venusta
Scoliopora denticulata (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851)
Natalophyllum giveticum
Crassialveolites crassus
Alveolitella fecunda
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Stringocephalidae
Stringocephalus sp.
Racki 1992
see common names

Geography
Country:Poland
Coordinates: 50.9° North, 20.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.9° South, 36.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Middle Devonian
Stage:Givetian 10 m.y. bin:Devonian 3
Key time interval:Givetian
Age range of interval:387.70000 - 382.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kowala Member:Stringocephalus Beds
Local section:Czarnow Local bed:A
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Kostomloty transitional zone of the Kielce (Dyminy) reef
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: coral biostromes
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 3842
Database number:83080
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-08-07 02:28:23 Last modified:2008-10-17 03:56:13
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

27802. 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]

Secondary references:

27803 G. Racki. 1992. Brachiopod assemblages in the Devonian Kowala Formation of the Holy Cross Mountains. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 37:297-357 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]