Dobrotiva Fm, Basin setting, Prague Basin, Czech Republic (Ordovician of Czech Republic)

Also known as Paterula community

Where: Czech Republic (50.0° N, 14.0° E: paleocoordinates 57.1° S, 85.0° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Dobrotiva Formation, Dobrotivian (459.0 - 457.9 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, black shale

• Black shale

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 3860: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 11.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Benignities sp.
originally entered as "Benigites sp."
Bivalvia
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Redonia sp. Rouault 1851 clam
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Paterulidae
Paterula sp. Barrande 1879
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Cremnorthidae
Malacostraca
 Archaeostraca - Caryocarididae
Caryocaris sp. Salter 1863