Where: France (47.5° N, 0.7° W: paleocoordinates 51.4° S, 40.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Monograptus uniformis zone, Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• "Lowermost Lochkovian"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, calcareous claystone and shelly/skeletal lime mudstone

Collection methods: Life mode and abundance of bivalves given (table 16.20). 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 14186: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 22.05.2002

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