Nasilow Greensand Horizon 1 (Cretaceous of Poland)

Where: Poland (51.3° N, 22.0° E: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 18.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Belemnella kazimiroviensis ammonoid zone, Greensand Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Horizon 1?; Topmost Belemnella kazimiroviensis

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, glauconitic, phosphatic, green sandstone

• 30cm phosphate-bearing glauconitic sandstone, highly fossiliferous

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, replaced with calcite, replaced with phosphate

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: G. I. Abdel-Gawad. 1986. Maastrichtian non-cephalopod mollusks: Scaphopoda, Gastropoda and Bivalvia of the Middle Vistula Valley, central Poland. Acta Geologica Polonica 36(1-3):69-224 [W. Kiessling/M. Apel/M. Apel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28445: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Marcus Apel on 13.02.2003, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
"Mosasaurus cf. hoffmanni" = Mosasaurus hoffmannii
"Mosasaurus cf. hoffmanni" = Mosasaurus hoffmannii Mantell 1829 mosasaur
IGPUWAR−1, IGPUWAR−2 and IGPUWAR−3 (3 teeth) - reworked Maastrichtian material
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Cerithium mazureki n. sp. cerith snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Monopleuridae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Lyropecten (Aequipecten) pulchellus" = Dhondtichlamys pulchellus, Mimachlamys denticulata
"Lyropecten (Aequipecten) pulchellus" = Dhondtichlamys pulchellus Nilsson 1827 scallop
Mimachlamys denticulata Hagenow 1842 scallop
Mimachlamys cretosa denticulata
 Pectinida - Limidae
 Pectinida - Dimyidae
Atreta nilssoni Hagenow 1842 scallop
 Ostreida - Flemingostreidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Hyotissa semiplana Sowerby 1825 oyster
"Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesiculare" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
Gryphaeostrea canaliculata Sowerby 1813 oyster