Where: Czech Republic (50.1° N, 14.4° E: paleocoordinates 54.2° S, 59.5° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cyrtograptus lundgreni graptolite zone, Motol Formation, Homerian (430.5 - 427.4 Ma)
• PJW: For some reason, this was listed in the Encrinuraspis beaumonti zone: but that is Kopanina and a bit younger. This seems to match the Strophoprion-Eoplectodonta zone, which is Cyrtograptus lundgreni zone, and Homerian.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary, calcareous shale and volcaniclastic, gray lime mudstone
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 14065: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 10.05.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Pterobranchia | |
Monograptus priodon Bronn 1835 graptolite | |
Strophomenata | |
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Janius nobilis Barrande 1848 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Nutricula gravida Kříž 1974 clam | |
Maminka comata clam | |
Butovicella migrans Barrande 1881 clam | |
Trilobita | |
Bumastus bouchardi trilobite | |
Decoroproetus (Decoroproetus) decorus Barrande 1846 trilobite | |
Aulacopleura konincki trilobite | |
Diacalymene diademata trilobite | |
Cheirurus insignis, "Sphaerexochus mirus" = Sphaerexochus calvus
Cheirurus insignis trilobite
"Sphaerexochus mirus" = Sphaerexochus calvus Mc Coy 1846 trilobite | |
Dicranopeltis scabra Beyrich 1845 trilobite | |
Odontopleura ovata Emmrich 1839 trilobite
Leonaspis roemeri trilobite
Dudleyaspis portlocki trilobite | |
Anthozoa | |
"Palaeofavosites asper" = Paleofavosites
"Palaeofavosites asper" = Paleofavosites tabulate coral | |
Halysites catenularia Linnaeus 1767 tabulate coral |