Zone 5, Litavk. subzone (Cambrian of Czech Republic)

Where: Litavka, Czech Republic (49.0° N, 14.0° E: paleocoordinates 42.5° S, 107.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Litavkaspis rejkovicensis trilobite zone, Jince Formation, Middle Cambrian (513.0 - 501.0 Ma)

• Listed as Zone 5 - Eccaparadoxides pusillus zone, Litavkaspis subzone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; poorly lithified shale and lithified siltstone

• Approx. 10m-thick zone; deposition in graben basin, prodeltaic
• Red-brown shales and siltstones

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: I. Chlupáč, V. Turek, and J. Barrande. 1998. Palaeozoic of the Barrandian (Cambrian to Devonian) 1-183 [G. Webster/G. Webster/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76453: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 20.11.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Lingulata
 Lingulida - Acrothelidae
"Acrothele sp." = Acrothele, "Glyptacrothele sp." = Acrothele
"Acrothele sp." = Acrothele Linnarsson 1876
"Glyptacrothele sp." = Acrothele Linnarsson 1876
 Acrotretida - Acrotretidae
"Luhotreta sp." = Vandalotreta
"Luhotreta sp." = Vandalotreta Mergl 1988
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida -
Maxilites sp. Marek 1972
 Bradoriida -
Konicekion sp. Snajdr 1975
Trilobita
 Redlichiida - Paradoxididae
"Hydrocephalus sp." = Hydrocephalus, "Rejkocephalus sp." = Hydrocephalus, Eccaparadoxides pusillus
"Hydrocephalus sp." = Hydrocephalus Barrande 1846 trilobite
"Rejkocephalus sp." = Hydrocephalus Barrande 1846 trilobite
Eccaparadoxides pusillus Barrande 1846 trilobite
 Redlichiida - Agraulidae
 Redlichiida - Ellipsocephalidae
 Ptychopariida - Conocoryphidae
Cystoidea
  -
Cystoidea indet. von Buch 1846