Loc. 4.2, "U Vitacku" Sect., sect. 581 (Silurian of Czech Republic)

Where: Czech Republic (50.0° N, 12.9° E: paleocoordinates 53.6° S, 57.3° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kopanina Formation, Gorstian (427.4 - 425.6 Ma)

• "The fauna has closest relationships with lower parts of the horizon with C. beaumonti (Gorstian) in the Amerika Anticline and with the lower parts of the Kopanina Formation at Kosov Quarry."

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, gray limestone

• "...On top of the basalt is developed a grey bioclastic limestone (no. 3) with brachiopods and corals, some of which are attached directly to the basalt hard-ground..."

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 14049: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 10.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
 Rhynchonellida - Hebetoechiidae
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Oglupes sp.
brachiopod; genus name in quotes
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Isorthis (Arcualla) sp. Walmsley and Boucot 1975
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
"Leptostrophiella nebulosa" = Mesoleptostrophia
"Leptostrophiella nebulosa" = Mesoleptostrophia
 Strophomenida - Amphistrophiidae
"Amphistrophiella standinia" = Amphistrophia (Amphistrophiella)
"Amphistrophiella standinia" = Amphistrophia (Amphistrophiella)
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena odeon Havlicek 1967
 Strophomenida - Strophonellidae
Trilobita
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
 Proetida - Aulacopleuridae
Aulacopleura sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Illaenidae
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Eophacops sp. Delo 1935 trilobite
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
"large crinoids"
Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Halysitidae
Halysites cf. catenularia Linnaeus 1767 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Heliolites sp. Dana 1846 tabulate coral