Also known as Encrinuraspis beaumonti-Smooth Atrypid Community, Prague Basin

Where: Czech Republic (50.0° N, 12.9° E: paleocoordinates 53.6° S, 57.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Lobograptus scanicus graptolite zone, Lower Member (Kopanina Formation), Gorstian (427.4 - 425.6 Ma)

• Lower Kopanina, early Ludlow.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal grainstone and argillaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Trilobites based in part on Chlupac (1987) (ref. 6191) (his Encrinuraspis-Eophacops and Encrinuraspis-Metacalymene-Prantlia assemblages). Relative abundances of brachiopods given by the authors.

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 14106: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 14.05.2002

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