Where: Czech Republic (49.9° N, 14.2° E: paleocoordinates 51.8° S, 57.3° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Kopanina Formation, Gorstian to Gorstian (427.4 - 423.0 Ma)
• Lower Kopanina.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; volcaniclastic, gray, calcareous mudstone and gray, cherty/siliceous 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 14126: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 15.05.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Porifera indet. Grant 1836 | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
Diacanthaspis (Acantholomina) minuta trilobite
Ceratocephala sp. Warder 1838 trilobite | |
Otarion diffractum Zenker 1833 trilobite | |
Prionopeltis praecedens Bouček 1935 trilobite | |
Strophomenata | |
"Protoshaleria sp." = Shaleria
"Protoshaleria sp." = Shaleria Caster 1939 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Atrypida indet. Rzhonsnitskaya 1960 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid | |
Graptolithina | |
Graptolithina indet. graptolite | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily |