Kopanina Formation, page 92 (Silurian of Czech Republic)

Where: Prague, Czech Republic (50.0° N, 14.0° E: paleocoordinates 53.1° S, 58.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kopanina Formation, Gorstian (427.4 - 425.6 Ma)

• Listed as Gorstian/Ludfordian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; poorly lithified, tuffaceous, calcareous shale

• Deeper part of basin during maximum regression
• Laminated calcareous shales with a tuffaceous admixture

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

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 76480: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 21.11.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Odontopleurida - Odontopleuridae
"Acanthalomina minuta" = Leonaspis (Acanthalomina) minuta
"Acanthalomina minuta" = Leonaspis (Acanthalomina) minuta Barrande 1852 trilobite
 Proetida - Otarionidae
Otarion diffractum Zenker 1833 trilobite
Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Cryptophyllidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Shaleriidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae