Loc. 5.1, Na breckvici, Praha-Butovice, sect. 584, Motol (beds 1-9) (Silurian of Czech Republic)
Where: Czech Republic (50.1° N, 14.3° E: paleocoordinates 54.2° S, 59.5° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Motol Formation, Homerian (430.5 - 427.4 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; volcaniclastic, gray, green, calcareous shale and lime mudstone
• "Section...starts..at basalt which is overlain by 1050 cm of dark-grey calcareous shales with rare concretions of dark micritic limestone..[Then volcanic granulate and basalt, within which is a horizon of ] dark grey-green tuffitic shales...Above the pyroclastics is a 870 cm thick sequence of dark brown grey-green tuffaceous shales [upper parts have C. colonus]..."
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 14062: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 10.05.2002
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Cephalopoda | |
Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Pterobranchia | |
Plectograptus praemacilentus graptolite | |
Monograptus sp. graptolite | |
Cyrtograptus lundgreni graptolite | |
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