Mielnik chalk pit, sample 9 (Cretaceous of Poland)

Where: Poland (52.3° N, 23.1° E: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 21.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Age based on presence of belemnite Belemnitella mucronata (Olszewska, 1990).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, white chalk

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Repository: presumably Institute of Geology, Warsaw University

Primary reference: M. A. Bitner and A. Pisera. 1979. Brachiopods from the Upper Cretaceous chalk of Mielnik (eastern Poland). Acta Geologica Polonica 29:67-88 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 170103: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.06.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Platidiidae
Aemula inusitata Steinich 1968
 Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae
"Terebratulina faujasi" = Terebratulina faujasii
"Terebratulina faujasi" = Terebratulina faujasii Roemer 1841