Budnany Stage, Pridoli-Schichten, Czech Republic (Silurian of Czech Republic)

Where: Bohemia, Czech Republic (50.0° N, 14.1° E: paleocoordinates 55.8° S, 60.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Pristiograptus-ultimus zone, Silurian (443.8 - 419.2 Ma)

• The fossils were said to be found in the Pristiograptus-ultimus Zone, the base of the Pridoli beds. Age based on graptolites (Boucek, 1960).

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone

• limey, marly; also terrigenous beds containing illite, kaolinite and clastic quartz.

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: J. Obrhel. 1962. The flora of the Pridoli-beds (Budnany-Stufe) of the Mid-Bohemian Silurian. [Die Flora der Pridoli-Schichten (Budnany-Stufe) des mittelboehmischen Silurs]. Geologie 11(1):83-97 [P. Gensel/A. Tuell/C. Bernard]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 20759: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Allison Tuell on 06.06.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Sterile axes also present.
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Monograptidae
Pristiograptus lochkovensis graptolite
graptolite
Pristiograptus ultimus graptolite
graptolite
Monograptus aungustidens graptolite
graptolite
Monograptus perneri graptolite
graptolite
"Pristiograptus transgrediens" = Monograptus transgrediens Pemer 1899 graptolite
graptolite
Monograptus bouceki Pribyl 1940 graptolite
graptolite
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Anoplothecidae
Coelospira sp. Hall 1863
invertebrate
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
invertebrate
Trilobita
 Proetida - Proetidae
Prionopeltis sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
invertebrate
Psilophytopsida
 Psilophytales -
Cooksonia sp. Lang 1937
? Cooksonia sp. Lang 1937