Loc. 4.3, Lodenice-Bubovice roadcut, Aulacopleura Shales (Silurian of Czech Republic)

Where: Czech Republic (50.0° N, 17.8° E: paleocoordinates 52.7° S, 62.1° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• "The fauna indicates the T. testis biozone" [which is within the C. lundgreni zone]

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; volcaniclastic shale and lime mudstone

• "Section...starts with dark grey tuffitic `Aulacopleura Shales' containing thin levels of dark micritic limestone and brown tuffites...The shales contain a rich fauna of the T. testis Biozone..."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 14050: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 10.05.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Protozoa
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unclassified
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Porifera indet. Grant 1836
"siliceous sponges"
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Cyrtograptidae
 Graptoloidea - Monograptidae
Testograptus testis Barrande 1859 graptolite
Monograptus dubius graptolite
Monograptus priodon Bronn 1835 graptolite
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
"crinoid columnals and crowns"
Bivalvia
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Butovicella migrans Barrande 1881 clam
 Cyrtodontida - Cardiolidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
 Atrypida - Lissatrypidae
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Trilobita
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Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
 Lichida - Lichidae
Dicranopeltis scabra Beyrich 1845 trilobite
 Proetida - Tropidocoryphidae
 Proetida - Scharyiidae
 Proetida - Proetidae
 Proetida - Brachymetopidae
Radnoria humillima Barrande 1852 trilobite
 Proetida - Aulacopleuridae
 Harpetida - Harpetidae
Bohemoharpes naumanni Barrande 1852 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
Staurocephalus murchisoni Barrande 1846 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Deiphon fleur trilobite
Cheirurus insignis trilobite
[entered as Cherurus insignis]
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod