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)
• Cyrtograptus murchisoni to C. radians Zones. Typical in M. flexilis Zone.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; volcaniclastic, calcareous shale and limestone
Primary reference: I. Chlupac. 1987. Ecostratigraphy of Silurian trilobite assemblages of the Barrandian area, Czechoslovakia. Newsletters on Stratigraphy 17(3):169-186 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 14124: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 15.05.2002, edited by Melanie Hopkins
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Scyphozoa | |
Conulariida indet. Miller and Gurley 1896 jellyfish | |
Malacostraca | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite | |
Ceratocephala barrandei trilobite
Miraspis mira Barrande 1846 trilobite | |
Planiscutellum planum trilobite
Liolalax cf. bouchardi trilobite | |
Aulacopleura sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
Harpidella lodenicensis trilobite | |
Interproetus sp. Snajdr 1977 trilobite | |
Decoroproetus decorus Barrande 1846 trilobite | |
Staurocephalus murchisoni Barrande 1846 trilobite | |
Cheirurus aff. insignis trilobite | |
Dicranopeltis aff. reporyjensis trilobite
Trochurus buffoides Vokac 1999 trilobite | |
Strophomenata | |
Strophomenida indet. Opik 1934 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Spiriferida indet. Waagen 1883 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Fenestellidae indet. King 1850 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid | |
Pterobranchia | |
Dendroidea indet. Nicholson 1872 graptolite | |
Graptoloidea indet. Lapworth 1875 graptolite | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Prototaxites | |
Prototaxites sp. Dawson 1859 |