Locality 01. Garden of the forest management at Jince (Cambrian of Czech Republic)

Where: Jince, Czech Republic (49.8° N, 14.0° E: paleocoordinates 42.3° S, 106.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Eccaparadoxides pusillus trilobite zone, Jince Formation, Middle Cambrian (509.0 - 497.0 Ma)

• Listed as Eccaparadoxides pusillus age

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; poorly lithified, argillaceous shale and lithified, fine-grained sandstone

• Prodelatic influence in lower, fossiliferous portion of 20m-thick zone, with background basinal facies; deposition in graben basin
• Yellow-green clayey shale with intercalations of greywackes and fine-grained sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Sampled from 5 m thick exposure

Primary reference: O. Fatka and V. Kordule. 1992. New fossils sites in the Jince Formation (Middle Cambrian, Bohemia). Věstnik Českého Geologického Ústavu 67:47-60 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Hearn]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76481: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Paul Hearn on 21.11.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Trilobita
 Ptychopariida - Conocoryphidae
Conocoryphe atlanta Snajdr 1982 trilobite
"Rare"
 Redlichiida - Paradoxididae
"Acadoparadoxides sirokyi" = Paradoxides (Acadoparadoxides) trilobite
"Common"
Eccaparadoxides pusillus Barrande 1846 trilobite
"Common"
 Redlichiida - Agraulidae
Skreiaspis spinosa trilobite
"Rare" Originally "Skrelaspis spinosa" Assumed spelling error
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Peronopsidae
 Agnostida - Spinagnostidae
 Agnostida - Ptychagnostidae
 Agnostida -
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida -
Hyolithida indet. Mathew 1962
"Rare"
Ctenocystoidea
  -
Etoctenocystis sp. Fatka and Kordule 1985
"Rare"
Stylophora
 Cornuta - Ceratocystidae