Acanthopyge Limestone, Locality 6 (CZE) (Devonian of Czech Republic)

Where: Czech Republic (50.0° N, 17.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 18.9° S, 11.2° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Acanthopyge Limestone Formation, Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; shelly/skeletal, gray limestone and mudstone

• alternation of coarse-grained bioclastic and fine-grained, prevalently micritic limestones; whitish and greyish in color; also the limestone is characterized by the presence of lumps that strongly resemble grapestones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: V. Havlicek and Z. Kukal. 1990. Sedimentology, benthic communities, and brachiopods in the Suchomasty (Dalejan) and Acanthopyge (Eifelian) Limestones of the Koneprusy area (Czechoslovakia). Sbornik geologickych ved, Paleontologie 31:105-205 [A. Miller/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5817: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 07.12.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Septalariidae
Amissopecten velox
 Spiriferida - Tenellodermidae
Cingulodermis columbina
 Athyridida - Meristidae
Merista repellens n. sp.
 Atrypida - Septatrypidae
"Rhynchatrypa thetis" = Septatrypa thetis
"Rhynchatrypa thetis" = Septatrypa thetis Barrande 1847
 Atrypida - Glassiidae
Trigonatrypa baucis