Outcrop 10: fauna from upper Myslejovice FM claystones in the Mala Hana valley (Carboniferous of Czech Republic)

Where: Czech Republic (49.3° N, 17.0° E: paleocoordinates 8.4° S, 18.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Culm facies Member (Myslejovice Formation), Chadian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)

• AGE: Placed in Chadian to avoid stratigraphic orphaning.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; claystone and argillaceous, sandy siltstone

• "In the rhythmic sequence, silstones and claystones prevail over the coarser greywacke component. Fossiliferous layers mostly belong to the shale facies of a flysch character and pronounced rhythms of cm-order. The rhythms mostly show positive gradation: the base is usually represented by a fairly coarse greywacke component; the higher part consists of siltstones to pelites. Abundant organic remains are usually concentrated in thin dark organic rich laminae in the upper part of the sequence."

Primary reference: V. Lang and I. Chlupac. 1975. New finds of trilobites in the Culm of the Drahanska vrchovina Upland (Moravia, Czechoslovakia). Vestnik Ustredniho ustavu gelogickeho 50(6):377-344 [A. Miller/J. Sessa/J. Sessa]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38091: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 11.04.2004

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Taxonomic list

• Author gives specimen counts for one trilobite species, all other taxa are listed without specimen counts.
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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
"Nudirostra papyracea" = Leiorhynchus
"Nudirostra papyracea" = Leiorhynchus
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea cincta
Orbiculoidea cincta Portlock 1843
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Streblochondriidae
"Pseudamusium fibrillosum" = Streblochondria fibrillosa
"Pseudamusium fibrillosum" = Streblochondria fibrillosa Salter 1864 scallop
Pseudamusium fibrilosum
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo luciniforme
Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Trigonoceratidae
Thrincoceras hibernicum
Thrincoceras hibernicum Foord 1891 nautiloid
 Pseudorthocerida - Pseudorthoceratidae
Dolorthoceras striolatum
 Pseudorthocerida - Spyroceratidae
Reticycloceras sulcatum
 Goniatitida - Goniatitidae
Hibernicoceras sp., Goniatites striatus, Goniatites crenistria
Hibernicoceras sp. Moore and Hodson 1958 ammonite
Goniatites striatus Sowerby 1814 ammonite
Goniatites striatus striatus
Goniatites crenistria Phillips 1836 ammonite
Goniatites crenistria intermedius
Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Archegonus (Phillibole) moravicus