Holubice-Otvovice quarries (Cretaceous of Czech Republic)

Also known as Holobitz, Holubic

Where: Stredocesky, Czech Republic (50.2° N, 14.3° E: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 13.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Korycany Member (Peruc-Korycany Formation), Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• beds are "rich in Exogyra columba"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Dvorak

Primary reference: A. Fritsch. 1878. Die Reptilien und Fische der Böhmischen Kreideformation [The Reptiles and Fishes of the Bohemian Chalk Formation] 1-44 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59412: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 31.03.2006

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Exogyra columba" = Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum
"Exogyra columba" = Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum Lamarck 1801 oyster
Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
"? Iguanodon exogirarum n. sp." = Procerosaurus exogirarum
"? Iguanodon exogirarum n. sp." = Procerosaurus exogirarum Fritsch 1878 ornithopod
tibia