Jince Formation, lower Zone 4 (Cambrian of Czech Republic)

Where: Vinice, Czech Republic (49.0° N, 9.0° E: paleocoordinates 45.6° S, 105.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Paradoxides gracilis trilobite zone, Jince Formation, Middle Cambrian (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)

• Listed as Middle Cambrian, lower Zone 4 - Paradoxides gracilis biozone/age

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified siltstone and poorly lithified, argillaceous, silty shale

• Listed as Upper prodeltaic. Prodelatic influence in lower, fossiliferous portion of 20m-thick zone, with background basinal facies; deposition in graben basin
• Siltstones and silty and clayey shales

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: I. Chlupac. 1993. Geology of the Barrandian: A Field Trip Guide. Senckenberg-Buchen, Frankfurt. [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Hearn]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76452: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 20.11.2007, edited by Phil Novack-Gottshall

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Taxonomic list

• Zone 4 - Paradoxides gracilis biozone (=Zone 7 of Havlicek in Chlupac, 1998)
unclassified
  -
Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Ptychopariidae
Ptychoparia striata Whitfield 1878 trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Conokephalinidae
"Lobocephalina emmrichi" = Conokephalina
"Lobocephalina emmrichi" = Conokephalina trilobite
 Ptychopariida - Conocoryphidae
Conocoryphe sulzeri Schlotheim 1823 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Paradoxididae
Paradoxides gracilis Boeck 1827 trilobite
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Peronopsidae
Peronopsis integra Beyrich 1845
 Bradoriida -
unclassified
  -
Edrioasteroidea
 Edrioasterida -
Ctenocystoidea
  -
Etoctenocystis bohemica n. gen. n. sp.
Etoctenocystis bohemica n. gen. n. sp. Barrande 1887
Eocrinoidea
  -
  - Lichenoididae
Lichenoides priscus Barrande 1846