Prionopeltis archiaci Assemblage, Prague Basin (Silurian of Czech Republic)

Where: Czech Republic (49.5° N, 13.5° E: paleocoordinates 51.7° S, 56.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kopanina Formation, Ludfordian (425.6 - 423.0 Ma)

• topmost Kopanina

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• "Trilobite remains are still more fragmented and a shallow subtidal zone of higher energy BA 3 may be assumed."
• "...light grey crinoidal limestones predominate..."

Collection methods: Similar to PBDB collection 14111 (P. archiaci-Atrypoidea modesta Comm. of Havlicek and Storch 1999), but not identical.

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 14128: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 15.05.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Only trilobites are listed to genus level, but many other groups reported present. Also, not all trilobites listed (see Snajdr 1985 for possible additional encrinurines).
unclassified
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Trilobita
 Odontopleurida -
Odontopleurida indet. Whittington 1959 trilobite
 Proetida -
Proetida indet. Fortey and Owens 1975 trilobite
 Proetida - Otarionidae
 Proetida - Proetidae
Prionopeltis sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
Prionopeltis archiaci Barrande 1846 trilobite
Prionopeltis dracula Ć najdr 1980 trilobite
 Phacopida - Encrinuridae
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
"Cerauroides hawlei" = Crotalocephalus
"Cerauroides hawlei" = Crotalocephalus trilobite
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Ananaspis sp. Campbell 1967 trilobite
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily