Midshelf setting, Prague Basin (Ordovician of Czech Republic)

Also known as Bohdelac Fm, midshelf setting, Prague Basin, Czech Republic

Where: Czech Republic (50.0° N, 14.0° E: paleocoordinates 59.5° S, 77.2° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Bohdalec Formation, Bohdalec (457.5 - 445.2 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, silty, calcareous shale

• Dark silty shales with carbonate cement

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: V. Havlicek and J. Vanek. 1966. The biostratigraphy of the Ordovician of Bohemia. Sbornik Geologickych Ved, Paleontologie 8:7-69 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3873: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 11.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Onnia sp.
Onnia sp. Bancroft 1933 trilobite
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Selenopeltis sp.
Selenopeltis sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene sp.
Flexicalymene sp. Shirley 1936 trilobite
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Eudolatites sp.
Eudolatites sp. Delo 1935 trilobite
 Phacopida - Acastidae
Sokhretia sp., Kloucekia sp.
Sokhretia sp. Hupe 1956 trilobite
Kloucekia sp. Delo 1935 trilobite
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Aegiromenidae
Aegiria sp.
Aegiria sp. Opik 1933
originally entered as "Aegiromena sp."
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rafinesquina sp.
Rafinesquina sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Onniella michlensis
 Orthida - Heterorthidae
Svobodaina sp.
Svobodaina sp. Havlicek 1951
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Rostricellula sp.
Rostricellula sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1942
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Paterulidae
Paterula sp.
Paterula sp. Barrande 1879
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Amplexoporidae
Monotrypa sp.
Monotrypa sp. Nicholson 1879
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Sluha sp.
Sluha sp. Barrande 1881 clam
 Solemyida - Ctenodontidae
Ctenodonta sp.
Ctenodonta sp. Salter 1852 clam
 Nuculida - Cardiolariidae
Deceptrix sp.
Deceptrix sp. Fuchs 1919 clam