Journal of

GEOsciences

  (Formerly Journal of the Czech Geological Society)

Original Paper

Ivo Chlupáč

Lower Cambrian arthropods from the Paseky Shale (Barrandian area, Czech Republic)

Journal of the Czech Geological Society, volume 40 (1995), issue 4, 9 - 36

The Lower Cambrian fauna of the Paseky Shale (Brdy Mts., central Bohemia) consists of three non-trilobite arthropods: the markedly dominant Kodymirus vagans Chlupac et Havlicek, 1965, interpreted as the earliest representative of the class Eurypterida with some superficial resemblance with aglaspidids, the newly described and proably related Kockurus grandis n. gen. et sp., and the crustacean Vladicaris subtilis n. gen. et sp. This low diversity and endemic fauna inhabited a special non-marine or restricted marine, probably brackish and lagoonal environment, exceptional for the Cambrian Period. -Author