Busko-Spa 1a: Badenian, Poland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Bryozpa indet.
Serpulida indet.
perhaps also vermetids
Florideophyceae - Hapalidiales - Lithothamniacae
Lithothamnium sp. Philippi
replaced by Lithothamnion
algal rhodoliths (calcareous red algal colony)
Florideophyceae - Corallinales - Lithophyllaceae
Lithophyllum sp. Philippi 1837
algal rhodoliths
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Gibbula sp. Risso 1826
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Bittium sp. Gray 1847
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arca sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris sp. Da Costa 1778
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys latissima
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiola sp. Lamarck 1801
corrected as Modiolus
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Venus sp. Linnaeus 1758
unclassified
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Thecostraca
Cirripedia indet. Rafinesque 1816
see common names

Geography
Country:Poland
Coordinates: 50.5° North, 20.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:50.8° North, 19.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Serravallian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Badenian
Age range of interval:13.65000 - 12.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Badenian (Middle Miocene), from the algal bioherm within the algal-detrital limestone unit
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified bindstone
Secondary lithology:shelly/skeletal "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: unbedded algal limestone (calcareous algae) bioherm, 5-10 m thick, lateral extent probably doesn't exceed 50 m. No zonation of any type is observed within the bioherm, and the substrate remains unknown.
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast,mold/impression,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:difficult macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:37375
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:E. Leckey
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-03-14 11:48:06 Last modified:2019-08-07 19:47:17
Access level:the public Released:2004-03-14 11:48:06
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

10024. W. Studencki. 1979. Sedimentation of algal limestones from Busko-Spa environs. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 27:155-165 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]