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
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 | |
"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
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Gastropoda | |
Cerithium mazureki n. sp.
Cerithium mazureki n. sp. cerith snail | |
? Aporrhais luganicus snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Gyropleura inequirostrata rudist | |
"Lyropecten (Aequipecten) pulchellus" = Dhondtichlamys pulchellus, Mimachlamys denticulata
"Lyropecten (Aequipecten) pulchellus" = Dhondtichlamys pulchellus Nilsson 1827 scallop | |
? Pseudolimea granulata file clam | |
Atreta nilssoni Hagenow 1842 scallop | |
Agerostrea lunata oyster | |
Hyotissa semiplana, "Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesiculare" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis, Gryphaeostrea canaliculata
Hyotissa semiplana Sowerby 1825 oyster
"Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesiculare" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
Gryphaeostrea canaliculata Sowerby 1813 oyster |