Where: Czech Republic (49.9° N, 14.2° E: paleocoordinates 49.0° S, 55.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Monograptus transgrediens zone, Pridoli (423.0 - 419.2 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray lime mudstone and shelly/skeletal, gray limestone
Collection methods: Life mode and abundance of bivalves given (table 16.19). Only bivalves explicitly said to occur at type locality, but text suggests other elements present as well.
Primary reference: J. Kříž. 1999. Bivalvia communities of Bohemian type from the Silurian and Lower Devonian carbonate facies. In A. J. Boucot. J. D. Lawson (ed.), Paleocommunities -- A case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 229-252 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 14185: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 22.05.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Panenka sp. Barrande 1881 clam
Dualina sp. Barrande 1881 clam | |
Leptodesma sp. Hall 1883 oyster | |
Maida bohemica Barrande 1881 oyster | |
Patrocardia bohemica clam | |
Mytilarca sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797 | |
Tergomya | |
Drahomira sp. Perner 1907 | |
Crinoidea | |
Scyphocrinites sp. Zenker 1833 Sea lily |