Suchomasty Limestone, Locality 8 (CZE) (Devonian of Czech Republic)

Where: Czech Republic (50.0° N, 17.0° E: paleocoordinates 33.7° S, 48.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Suchomasty Limestone Formation, Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; bioturbated, shelly/skeletal wackestone and lime mudstone

• limestones of variegated color, bioclastic (predominantly crinoid stems) wackestones and mudstones

Size class: macrofossils

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 5800: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 03.12.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
 Rhynchonellida - Septalariidae
 Rhynchonellida - Uncinulidae
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Cortezorthis sp. Johnson and Talent 1967
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Athyridida - Meristidae
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
 Spiriferida - Xenomartiniidae
 Spiriferida - Adolfiidae
 Spiriferida - Tenellodermidae
 Pentamerida - Clorindidae
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
 Atrypida - Punctatrypidae
 Atrypida - Glassiidae