Actinopteria migrans migrans Community in Prague Basin: Lochkovian, Czech Republic

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pterineidae
Actinopteria migrans
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella inchoans
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Cyrtinopsidae
Araspirifer digitatus
Lingulata - Discinida - Disciniidae
Lochkothele intermedia
see common names

Geography
Country:Czech Republic
Coordinates: 50.0° North, 14.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.0° South, 52.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Early/Lower Devonian
Stage:Lochkovian 10 m.y. bin:Devonian 1
*International age/stage:Late/Upper Lochkovian
Key time interval:Lochkovian Zone: Monograptus hercynicus
Age range of interval:419.20000 - 410.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal lime mudstone
Secondary lithology:shelly/skeletal "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "Disarticulated shells present as mass occurrences covering some bedding plans of dark micritic to biodetrital limestones."
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: "Semi-infauna, suspension feeding mode of life indicates favorable conditions above the sea bottom and probably also low current activity. The dominant species filled a narrow niche where, in general, conditions were unfavorable for other benthic organisms. The micritic to biodetrital horizons containing A. migrans alternate with levels crowded with brachiopods where A. is rare or absent...The depth changes between the two levels were certainly negligible. "
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:14190
Authorizer:M. Foote Enterer:M. Foote
Modifier:M. Foote Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-05-22 12:14:57 Last modified:2006-09-15 15:14:05
Access level:the public Released:2002-05-22 12:14:57
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
6282. J. Kříž. 1999. Bivalvia communities of Bohemian type from the Silurian and Lower Devonian carbonate facies. In A. J. Boucot. J. D. Lawson (ed.), Paleocommunities -- A case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 229-252 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]