Loc. 2.3, Vseradice Section, sect. no. 717, M. dubius parvus Biozone (Silurian of Czech Republic)

Where: Czech Republic (50.1° N, 14.5° E: paleocoordinates 54.2° S, 59.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Monograptus dubius parvus graptolite zone, Motol Formation, Homerian (430.5 - 427.4 Ma)

• Middle Motol Formation. Originally given as Sheinwoodian, but Monograptus dubius parvus zone is Homerian (PJW 2017-05-25).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, calcareous shale

• "...base of [biozone] developed in quite massive brownish grey shales...characterized by two graptolite species...The basal 15 cm contain a rich brachiopod and trilobite fauna..." [Calcareous shales according to section sketch]

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Kříž. 1992. Silurian field excursions: Prague Basin (Barrandian), Bohemia. National Museum of Wales, Geological Series 13:1-111 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14028: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 08.05.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
? Delops orbus trilobite
 Proetida - Brachymetopidae
Radnoria sp. Wasmann 1894 trilobite
 Proetida - Tropidocoryphidae
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Tentaculita
 Cornulitida - Cornulitidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
 Strophomenida -
 Strophomenida - Aegiromenidae
Craniata
 Craniopsida - Craniopsidae
Hyolitha
 Orthothecida - Orthothecidae
Orthotheca pulchra
genus name in quotes
Polychaeta
  -
Plumulites minimus scale worm
genus name in quotes
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Retiolitidae
 Graptoloidea - Monograptidae