Trenice Fm, nearshore assemblage, Prague Basin (Ordovician of Czechia)

Also known as Trenice Fm, nearshore assemblage, Prague Basin, Czech Republic

Where: Czechia (50.0° N, 14.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 71.7° S, 8.3° E (Wright 2013)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Trenice Formation, Tremadoc (486.4 - 477.1 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithified sandstone

• Dominantly quartzitic sandstone, greywackes, and arkoses; fluvio-marine/intertidal setting

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 3781: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 10.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Eoorthidae
Jivinella praecedens
 Orthida - Orthidae
Orthambonites ruzickai
Orthambonites ruzickai
"O. růžičkai"
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Zhanatellidae
Thysanotos siluricus, Hyperobolus sp.
 Lingulida - Obolidae
"Westonisca ovata" = Libecoviella ovata, Expellobolus sp., Lingulella sp.
"Westonisca ovata" = Libecoviella ovata Havlicek 1982
Expellobolus sp. Havlíček 1982
Lingulella sp. Salter 1866
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
Conotreta sp., Acrotreta sp.
Conotreta sp. Walcott 1889
Acrotreta sp. Kutorga 1848
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Poramborthidae
Poramborthis sp.
 Orthida - Eoorthidae
Ocnerorthis sp., Apheoorthina sp.
Ocnerorthis sp. Bell 1941
Apheoorthina sp. Havlíček 1949
 Orthida - Plectorthidae
Nanorthis sp.
Nanorthis sp. Ulrich and Cooper 1936