Loc. 4.1, Listice Sect., Beroun, Listice sect. 759, Motol (Silurian of Czech Republic)

Where: Czech Republic (50.0° N, 12.9° E: paleocoordinates 54.9° S, 58.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Motol Formation, Homerian (430.5 - 427.4 Ma)

• "The limestones have yielded the index graptolites of the C. murchisoni Biozone...Overlying beds [contain] limestones of the C. perneri/C.ramosus Biozone." Thus, section spans much of Sheinwoodian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, gray lime mudstone and volcaniclastic, gray, green shale

• "Section...starts...in the pyroclastics. They are overlain by a lens of grey micritic limestone with crinoid detritus, volcanic glass, and the Buceqia obolina Community...Lst overlain by 15 cm greenish-grey tuffite...followed by another bed of grey Lst and then greenish-grey tuffitic shales containing [graptolites & others]...The section continues as grey-green coarse-grained tuffites with lenses of grey bioclastic crinoidal limestones...overlain by massive grey Lst..." (Tuffites predominate in thickness.)

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 14047: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 09.05.2002

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