Zahorany Fm, offshore setting, Prague Basin, Czech Republic (Ordovician to of Czech Republic)

Where: Czech Republic (50.0° N, 14.0° E: paleocoordinates 60.0° S, 75.7° E)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Zahorany Formation, Zahorany to Zahorany (457.5 - 443.8 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, silty shale

• Clayey shales with admixture of silt

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 3866: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 11.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

 Sphaeronitida - Aristocystitidae
Aristocystites sp. Barrande 1887
Bivalvia
 Cyrtodontida - Praecardiidae
Neklania sp. Růžička and Přibyl 1953 clam
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Aegiromenidae
Aegiria sp. Opik 1933
originally entered as "Aegiromena sp."
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Metagnostidae
Geragnostella sp. Kobayashi 1939
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Nobiliasaphus sp. Pribyl and Vanek 1965 trilobite
 Asaphida - Cyclopygidae
Bohemilla sp. Barrande 1872 trilobite
 Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Marrolithus sp. Bancroft 1929 trilobite
 Harpetida - Harpetidae
"Declivolithus sp." = Bohemoharpes
"Declivolithus sp." = Bohemoharpes Vanek 1963 trilobite
 Corynexochida - Styginidae
Cekovia sp. Snajdr 1956 trilobite
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Eudolatites sp. Delo 1935 trilobite
 Phacopida - Cheiruridae
Actinopeltis sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
Eccoptochile sp. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite
 Phacopida - Calymenidae
Prionocheilus sp. Rouault 1847 trilobite
Flexicalymene sp. Shirley 1936 trilobite
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Calymenella sp. Bergeron 1890 trilobite