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A new Ordovician gastropod and operculum from the Czech Republic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

David M. Rohr  and
Jiří Frýda
David M. Rohr
Affiliation:
Sul Ross State University, Alpine, Texas, 79832,
Jiří Frýda
Affiliation:
Český geologický ústav, Klárov 3/131, 118 21 Praha 1, Czech Republic,
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Fossilized opercula are uncommon in Paleozoic rocks, and shells with the operculum in place are rare. A single specimen with the operculum in place was discovered by P. Slehofer in a concretion in the Ordovician Zahorany Formation of the Prague Basin. Formerly known as Trochonema excavatum Barrande in Perner, 1903, the species is the basis of the new genus Slehoferia. Perner (1903) reported the shell of the same species from two localities, and additional specimens without the operculum are in the collections of the National Museum and Czech Geological Survey. Studied material is deposited in the paleontological collection of the Czech Geological Survey, Prague.

Type
Paleontological Notes
Information
Journal of Paleontology , Volume 75 , Issue 2 , March 2001 , pp. 461 - 462
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 2001

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