Kutná Hora Crystalline Unit (Cretaceous of Czech Republic)

Where: Czech Republic (50.0° N, 15.3° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 45.2° N, 30.1° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shoreface; fine-grained sandstone and quartzite

• Fine-grained sandstones with larger clasts of quartzite and gneiss, which were washed down from higher elevations of the Kutná Hora Crystalline Unit. Sandstones are intercalated with organodetritic sandy limestones. Shallow water sediments deposited close to a very irregular shoreline.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: S. El-Shazly, M. Kostak, G. Abdel-Gawad, B. Klouckova, S.G. Saber, Y. Felieh Salama, and M. Mazuch and K. 2011. Carbon and oxygen stable isotopes of selected Cenomanian and Turonian rudists from Egypt and Czech Republic, and a note on changes in rudist diversity. Bulletin of Geosciences 86(2):209-226 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 151607: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 08.10.2013

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Cidaris sorignetti, "Stereocidaris vesiculosa" = Temnocidaris (Stereocidaris)
Cidaris sorignetti pencil urchin
"Stereocidaris vesiculosa" = Temnocidaris (Stereocidaris) pencil urchin
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnitellidae
Praeactinocamax plenus de Blainville 1827 belemnite
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Ichthyosarcolitidae
"Ichthyosarcolites sp." = Icthyosarcolites
"Ichthyosarcolites sp." = Icthyosarcolites Desmarest 1817 rudist
 Hippuritida - Monopleuridae
Simacia sp. Pocta 1889 rudist
Araeopleura sp. Cox 1965 rudist
Petalodontia sp. Pocta 1889 rudist
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
 Hippuritida - Caprinulidae
Caprotina sp. Orbigny 1842 rudist
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum Lamarck 1801 oyster
"Exogyra sigmoidea" = Amphidonte (Ceratostreon) sigmoidea Reuss 1844 oyster
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Inoceramus pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus
"Inoceramus pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus Sowerby 1829 clam