Acanthopyge Limestone, Locality 11(CZE) (Devonian of Czech Republic)

Where: Czech Republic (50.3° N, 17.1° E: paleocoordinates 28.2° S, 40.2° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Acanthopyge Limestone Formation, Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; shelly/skeletal, gray limestone and lime mudstone

• boreholes display vertical alternation of coarse-grained bioclastic and fine-grained, prevalently micritic limestones; whitish and greyish in color; also the limestone is characterized by the presence of lumps that strongly resemble grapestones

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: V. Havlicek and Z. Kukal. 1990. Sedimentology, benthic communities, and brachiopods in the Suchomasty (Dalejan) and Acanthopyge (Eifelian) Limestones of the Koneprusy area (Czechoslovakia). Sbornik geologickych ved, Paleontologie 31:105-205 [A. Miller/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5792: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 02.12.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Plectospira varioplicata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Leptathyris deino n. sp.
 Athyridida - Meristidae
Merista repellens n. sp.
 Terebratulida - Stringocephalidae
Kaplex bohemicus
 Rhynchonellida - Septalariidae
Amissopecten velox, Amissopecten obsolescens
 Rhynchonellida - Rozmanariidae
Errhynx sp.
 Rhynchonellida - Hebetoechiidae
Kransia aff. parallelepipeda
 Spiriferida - Reticulariidae
Eoreticularia fraterna, Obesaria obesa, Quasimartinia lubrica n. sp.
 Spiriferida - Xenomartiniidae
Bojothyris nikiforovae
 Spiriferida - Tenellodermidae
Cingulodermis columbina
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Ambocoelia mesodevonica
 Spiriferida - Adolfiidae
Rochtex lissopleura n. sp., Amoenospirifer oenone n. sp., Amoenospirifer amoenoides n. sp.
 Atrypida - Davidsoniidae
"Quasidavidsonia mediocarinata" = Prodavidsonia
"Quasidavidsonia mediocarinata" = Prodavidsonia
 Atrypida - Carinatinidae
Carinatina sp. n. sp.
 Atrypida - Glassiidae
Trigonatrypa baucis, Trigonatrypa securis, Karbous hassiacus, Karbous truncatus
 Atrypida - Septatrypidae
Cerberatrypa dissidens, Cerberatrypa cerberus n. sp., "Rhynchatrypa thetis" = Septatrypa thetis
"Rhynchatrypa thetis" = Septatrypa thetis Barrande 1847
 Atrypida - Lissatrypidae
Radimatrypa zelaria n. sp.
 Pentamerida - Clorindidae
Clorinda strix