Cardiolinka bohemica Community in the Orthoceras Quarry, Praha-Lochkov (Silurian of Czech Republic)

Where: Czech Republic (50.0° N, 14.3° E: paleocoordinates 48.9° S, 55.4° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Monograptus parultimus zone, Pridoli (423.0 - 419.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal limestone

• "The limestone occurs just above shallow water limestone with the Cardiola conformis Community. [In general environment similar to that of C. conformis Comm., i.e. shallow, subtidal, with strong currents but protected against strong wave action, but with somewhat weaker currents.] In Bohemia the thin limestone horizon with the Cardiolinka bohemica Comm. forms the highest horizon of biodetrital limestone with cephalopods with occur locall before sedimentation of micrites and calcareous shale starts at the base of the Pridoli."
• "Mostly disarticulated shells occur in biodetrital limestones with relatively common nektobenthic cephalopods."

Collection methods: Because of broad geographic range, list as entered here consists only of taxa explicitly mentioned as coming from the type locality (Table 16.10).

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14165: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 20.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

• Bivalves are focus of taxon list. Other taxa mentioned but not listed in detail.
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Bivalvia
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"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Myalinida - Lunulacardiidae
Patrocardia sp.
Patrocardia sp. Fischer 1887 clam
 Ostreida - Vlastidae
Praeostrea bohemica
Praeostrea bohemica Barrande 1881 oyster
 Cyrtodontida - Spanilidae
Spanila sp.
Spanila sp. Barrande 1881 clam
 Cyrtodontida - Antipleuridae
Dualina sp., Dualina longiuscula
Dualina sp. Barrande 1881 clam
 Cyrtodontida - Cardiolidae
Cardiolinka bohemica
Cephalopoda
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Cephalopoda indet.
Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797