Algal bioherm, Podolsk, Pakhra River area (Carboniferous of Russian Federation)

Also known as Reef 371

Where: Russian Federation (55.4° N, 37.5° E: paleocoordinates 12.4° N, 29.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Akatievo Formation, Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• Upper Moscovian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• boundstone lenses formed by phylloid algae and dense micritic-to-micropeloidal masses of supposed microbial origin; up to 2.5 m thick

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: P. Kabanov. 2003. The Upper Moscovian and basal Kasimovian (Pennsylvanian) of central European Russia: Facies, subaerial exposures and depositional model. Facies 49:243-270 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63384: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.08.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Beresellaceae
Dvinella sp. Khvorova 1949
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Codiaceae
Ivanovia tenuissima Khvorova 1946
Foraminifera
 Fusulinina - Tuberitinidae
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Tolypammina sp. Rhumbler 1895
  -
Palaeonubecularia sp. Reitlinger 1950
Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Auloporidae
Aulopora sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral
Demospongiae
 Hadromerida - Suberitidae
Chaetetes sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1829 demosponge
Strophomenata
 Productida -
Productida indet. Sarycheva and Sokolskaya 1959
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Choristitidae
Choristites sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1825
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita sp. Brown 1849
Rostroconchia
 Conocardiida - Conocardiidae
Conocardium sp. Bronn 1835