Olešná (Ordovician of Czechia)

Also known as Leptembolon insons community. Klabava Fm, Intertidal/shallow subtidal assemblage, Prague Basin, Czech Republic

Where: Czechia (50.0° N, 14.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 72.4° S, 11.6° E (Wright 2013)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Olešná Shales Member (Klabava Formation), Klabava (477.1 - 469.4 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified shale

• Red shale and greywacke; close to the "red source"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: V. Havlicek and J. Vanek. 1966. The biostratigraphy of the Ordovician of Bohemia. Sbornik Geologickych Ved, Paleontologie 8:7-69 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3838: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 10.08.1999, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

Lingulata
 Lingulida - Obolidae
 Lingulida - Acrothelidae
Orbithele undulosa Barrande 1879
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
Acrotreta minima
Was Conotreta sp.
 Siphonotretida - Siphonotretidae
Hexactinellida
 Lyssacinosa -
 Reticulosa - Protospongiidae
Protospongia novaki glass sponge
Protospongia nováki