U kantiny, old quarry in suburb southwest of Prague (Devonian of Czech Republic)

Also known as locality number JF149

Where: Czech Republic (49.9° N, 14.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.0° S, 49.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dvorce-Prokop Member (Praha Formation), Pragian (410.8 - 407.6 Ma)

• Upper part of member, top of Pragian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by J. Fryda

• The new taxa described here come from weathered beds of the Early Devonian Koněprusy Limestone (Praha Formation) of Pragian age found by one of us (LF) at the Císařský lom quarry (Fig. 1; Frýda & Ferrová 2011). These weathered beds contain a rather highly diversified gastropod fauna, which is under study. SEM-images of the first several whorls were used for measurement of protoconch size as well as for documentation of shell morphology (Figs 2, 3). Shells of all the newly described species (both figured and unfigured) are deposited in the Czech Geological Survey (Prague) under numbers (UUG JF 907–959). Abbreviations: NMP National Museum, Prague, UUG JF—Czech Geological Survey (Prague).

Primary reference: J. Fryda, L. Ferrová, and B. Frýdova. 2013. Review of palaeozygopleurid gastropods (Palaeozygopleuridae, Gastropoda) from Devonian strata of the Perunica microplate (Bohemia), with a re-evaluation of their stratigraphic distribution, notes on their ontogeny, and descriptions of new taxa. Zootaxa 3669(4):469-489 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153844: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.01.2014

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Taxonomic list

• Only palaeozygopleurid gastropods described here.
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Palaeozygopleuridae
"? Palaeozygopleura (Palaeozygopleura) bouskai n. sp." = Palaeozygopleura bouskai
"? Palaeozygopleura (Palaeozygopleura) bouskai n. sp." = Palaeozygopleura bouskai Horný 1955 snail