Loc. 5.6, Marble Quarry, sect. 357, Pozary (Pridoli) (beds 12-25) (Silurian of Czech Republic)

Where: Czech Republic (50.0° N, 14.3° E: paleocoordinates 48.9° S, 55.4° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pozary Formation, Pridoli (423.0 - 419.2 Ma)

• Ludlow-Pridoli boundary as well as middle and upper Pridoli are included.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• "The boundary with the Pozary Formation is sharp. the Pozary is developed as dark grey biomicritic to micritic limestones and laminates alternating with brownish-grey to dark-grey calcareous shales. [Bed 12 has M. parultimus, therefore is start of Pridoli]. The section continues...as a sequence of laminites in the middle and upper Pridoli."

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 14076: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 10.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Protozoa
  -
Trilobita
 Proetida - Scharyiidae
Scharyia nympha Chlupac 1971 trilobite
 Proetida - Proetidae
"Prionopeltis striata" = Phaetonides striatus
"Prionopeltis striata" = Phaetonides striatus Barrande 1846 trilobite
Ostracoda
 Podocopa -
Podocopida indet. Sars 1866 ostracod
Malacostraca
 Archaeostraca - Ceratiocarididae
Ceratiocaris bohemica Barrande 1853
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Actinopteria spp. Hall 1884 oyster
 Cyrtodontida - Antipleuridae
Dualina comitans Barrande 1881 clam
 Cyrtodontida - Cardiolidae
 Cyrtodontida - Praecardiidae
Praecardium spp. Barrande 1881 clam
  -
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
Gastropoda
 Cyrtoneritida - Orthonychiidae
Orthonychia elegans Perner 1903 snail
Cephalopoda
 Oncocerida -
 Orthocerida - Arionoceratidae
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida -
"Ozarkodina remscheidensis" = Nicollidina remscheidensis
"Ozarkodina remscheidensis" = Nicollidina remscheidensis Ziegler 1960 conodont
Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Scyphocrinitidae
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea -
"Monograptus parultimus" = Neocolonograptus parultimus, "Monograptus ultimus" = Neocolonograptus ultimus
"Monograptus parultimus" = Neocolonograptus parultimus Jaeger 1975 graptolite
"Monograptus ultimus" = Neocolonograptus ultimus Perner 1899 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Monograptidae
Chitinozoa
 Prosamatifera - Conochitinidae
Conochitina sp. Eisenack 1931