Bivalves of Antipleura bohemica Community at Solopysky (Devonian of Czech Republic)

Where: Czech Republic (50.0° N, 14.4° E: paleocoordinates 44.9° S, 52.6° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Monograptus uniformis zone, Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• lowermost Lochkovian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal lime mudstone and shelly/skeletal limestone

• Cephalopods current-oriented. Semi-infaunal forms rare. "The environment was shallow water, subtidal; oriented cephalopod shells document stronger current activity, but preservation of the bivalves and cephalopods shows that the bottom was free from stronger wave action."
• "...bivalves preeserved in biomicritic to biodetrital, dark limestone with abundant nektobenthic cephalopod shells..."

Collection methods: Life mode and abundance of bivalves given (table 16.22). Because this list is not at type locality, I have included only those species explicitly listed in table.

Primary reference: J. Kříž. 1999. Bivalvia communities of Bohemian type from the Silurian and Lower Devonian carbonate facies. In A. J. Boucot. J. D. Lawson (ed.), Paleocommunities -- A case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 229-252 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14188: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 22.05.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Bivalves are the focus; other taxa mentioned but not listed fully.
Bivalvia
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"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Paracyclas sp. Hall 1843 clam
 Myalinida - Lunulacardiidae
Patrocardia ex gr. evolvens Barrande 1881 clam
 Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Mytilarca sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
 Ostreida - Vlastidae
Vlasta sp. Barrande 1881 oyster
 Cyrtodontida - Antipleuridae
Praelucina sp. Barrande 1881 clam
Dualina sp. Barrande 1881 clam
Silurina sp. Barrande 1881 clam
 Cyrtodontida - Praecardiidae
Neklania sp. Růžička and Přibyl 1953 clam