Where: Czech Republic (50.0° N, 17.8° E: paleocoordinates 54.5° S, 63.9° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Motol Formation, Sheinwoodian (433.4 - 430.5 Ma)

• "...clearly younger than the M. belophorus Zone, and probably corresponds in age to the C. perneri-G. nassa-P. frequens Zones of the Upper Wenlock.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Collection methods: Authors give relative abundance data (very rare, more frequent, frequent) for brachiopods. "The list [of brachiopods] in Table 15.5 is incomplete because distributions of some species have not been verified by our field investigations." "It was called the Cyrtia petasus Horizon by Horny (1955, 1962)." Not all trilobites included. Check Horny (1955) for more.

Primary reference: V. Havlicek and P. Storch. 1999. Silurian and Lochkovian communities in the Prague basin (Barrandian area, Czech Republic). in A. J. Boucot and J. D. Lawson, eds. Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian. Cambridge University Press, Cambrdige. 200-228 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14096: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 13.05.2002

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