Crinoids of the Kotyz Lst. of the Lochkov Fm., Barrandian (Devonian of Czech Republic)

Where: Czech Republic (49.9° N, 14.2° E: paleocoordinates 45.0° S, 52.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kotys Member (Lochkov Formation), Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, cherty/siliceous limestone

• (Ref. 4216, as cited in coll. 12072): "light-grey thick-bedded, predominantly sparitic limestone, locally with cherts...medium to coarse bioclastic, obviously without shale intercalations and with irregular (knobly) bedding planes."

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: See PBDB collection 12072 for lithologic, stratigraphic, and other details.

Primary reference: R. J. Prokop. 1987. The stratigraphical distribution of Devonian crinoids in the Barrandian area (Czechoslovakia). Newsletters on Stratigraphy 17(2):101-107 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14133: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 15.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Paper reports crinoids only.
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Crinoidea
 Pisocrinida - Pisocrinidae
Parapisocrinus ollula, Pisocrinus bohemicus, Pisocrinus ubaghsi
Parapisocrinus ollula Angelin 1878 Sea lily
subsp. grandis
 Monobathrida - Scyphocrinitidae
Scyphocrinites elegans, Scyphocrinites subornatus