Zahorany Fm, offshore setting, Prague Basin, Czech Republic (Ordovician to of Czechia)

Where: Czechia (50.0° N, 14.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 65.4° S, 13.8° E (Wright 2013)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Zahorany Formation, Zahorany to Zahorany (459.3 - 443.1 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, silty shale

• Clayey shales with admixture of silt

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 3866: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 11.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

 Sphaeronitida - Aristocystitidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Aegiromenidae
Bivalvia
 Cyrtodontida - Praecardiidae
Neklania sp. Růžička and Přibyl 1953 clam
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Geragnostella sp. Kobayashi 1939 artiopod
"Geragnostella sp. n."
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
 Asaphida - Cyclopygidae
 Harpetida - Harpetidae
"Declivolithus alfredi" = Bohemoharpes
"Declivolithus alfredi" = Bohemoharpes trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene incerta Barrande 1852 trilobite
Prionocheilus sp. Rouault 1847 trilobite
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Eccoptochile sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
Either Eccoptochile (Eccoptochile) clavigera or Eccoptochile (Eccoptochiloides) tumescens or both
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Eudolatites angelini Barrande 1852 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Cekovia salteri trilobite