Zahorany (Ordovician of Czechia)

Where: Czechia (50.0° N, 14.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 65.4° S, 13.9° E (Wright 2013)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Chlustina Beds Member (Zahorany Formation), Zahorany (459.3 - 457.3 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, silty sandstone and shale

• Interbedded shale, siltstone, and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Narodní Museum

Primary reference: J. Perner. 1903. Gastéropodes, Tome 1: Patellidae et Bellerophontidae 1-164 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155333: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 08.04.2014

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

 Rhombifera - Cheirocrinidae
Homocystites alter1 Barrande 1887
 Sphaeronitida - Aristocystitidae
Aristocystites bohemicus2 Barrande 1887
Rostroconchia
 Ribeirioida - Technophoridae
Ribeiria apusoides4 Schubert and Waagen 1904
Tergomya
 Cyrtonellida - Cyrtolitidae
Sinuitopsis nodosa, "Sinuitopsis transgrediens" = Sinuitopsis neglecta
Sinuitopsis nodosa Perner 1903
"Sinuitopsis transgrediens" = Sinuitopsis neglecta Perner 1903
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
"Bucania comata n. sp." = Bucanopsis comata
"Bucania comata n. sp." = Bucanopsis comata Perner 1903 snail
 Murchisoniina - Lophospiridae
"Pleurotomaria (Lophospira) viator n. sp." = Paupospira viator3
"Pleurotomaria (Lophospira) viator n. sp." = Paupospira viator3 Perner 1907 snail