Petrovic near Rakonitz (Carboniferous of Czech Republic)

Where: Czech Republic (50.1° N, 13.7° E: paleocoordinates 0.8° N, 20.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Radnice Member (Kladno Formation), Moscovian (315.2 - 307.0 Ma)

• Mittleres Obercarbon; Radnitzer Schichten. Constrained to early Moscovian by radiometric dating in Opluštil et al. (2016).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; shale and coal

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Prague National Museum

Primary reference: A. Fritsch. 1904. Palaeozoische Arachniden 1-85 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 146850: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Arachnida
 Trigonotarbida - Eophrynidae
Petrovicia proditoria n. gen. n. sp.
Petrovicia proditoria n. gen. n. sp. Fritsch 1904
CGH 604 Inv. 815 (Eophrynus n. sp. in Kusta 1885; Anthracomartus sp. in Kusta 1888)