Czatkowice 1 quarry (Triassic of Poland)

Where: Malopolskie, Poland (50.1° N, 19.6° E: paleocoordinates 17.8° N, 26.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Olenekian (251.2 - 247.2 Ma)

• earliest Late Olenekian (Yarenskian) on the basis of tetrapod (temnospondyl) biostratigraphy (Shishkin and Sulej 2009)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fissure fill; fine-grained, yellow, sandy limestone and limestone

• single karst fissure; arid environment with sparse vegetation and occasional pools with aquatic communities
• "fine grained sandy yellow limestone with some calcite cement [with] bones, occasional clasts, and concretions. A few samples show evidence of sedimentary bedding and parallel orientation of the bones, but this is not generally the case."

• bone breccia within a Carboniferous limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1978

Collection methods: quarrying, chemical, mechanical,

• ZPAL: Institute of Paleobiology, Warsaw

Primary reference: M. Borsuk-Bialynicka, E. Cook, S. E. Evans and T. Maryanska. 1999. A microvertebrate assemblage from the Early Triassic of Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 44(2):167-188 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 38528: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.04.2004, edited by Richard Butler

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gnathostomata
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Osteichthyes
 Dipnoi - Gnathorhizidae
Gnathorhiza sp.5 Cope 1883 lungfish
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Parotosuchus speleus n. sp.9 Shishkin and Sulej 2009 tetrapod
 Temnospondyli - Tupilakosauridae
Batrachosuchoides sp.9 Shishkin 1967 tetrapod
A series of incomplete isolated bones, collection ZPAL AbIV: postparietal 101; ectoptery− goids 36, 53; exoccipitals 48, 120, 152; surangular 69; clavicle 61
 Salientia -
Czatkobatrachus polonicus n. gen. n. sp.8
Czatkobatrachus polonicus n. gen. n. sp.8 Evans and Borsuk-Bialynicka 1998 frogs and relatives
Reptilia
 Diapsida -
Czatkowiella harae n. gen. n. sp.1 Borsuk−Białynicka and Evans 2009 archosauromorph
Archosauriformes indet.3 Gauthier 1986 archosauromorph
 Diapsida - Euparkeriidae
Osmolskina czatkowicensis n. gen. n. sp.4
Osmolskina czatkowicensis n. gen. n. sp.4 Borsuk-Bialynicka and Evans 2003 archosauromorph
 Diapsida -
Collilongus rarus n. gen. n. sp.3
Collilongus rarus n. gen. n. sp.3 Borsuk−Białynicka and Sennikov 2009 archosauromorph
Four cervicals: ZPAL RV/579, 580, 581, 596; ?four dorsals: ZPAL RV/584, 585, 588, 694; one sacral ZPAL RV/1369; and twelve caudals: ZPAL RV/583, 594, 661, 662, 663, 1362, 1363, 1364, 1365, 1366, 1367, 1368
 Eosuchia - Kuehneosauridae
Pamelina polonica n. gen. n. sp.6
Pamelina polonica n. gen. n. sp.6 Evans 2009 crown diapsid
 Eosuchia -
Sophineta cracoviensis n. gen. n. sp.7
Sophineta cracoviensis n. gen. n. sp.7 Evans and Borsuk−Białynicka 2009 crown diapsid
 Parareptilia - Procolophonidae
Procolophonidae "unnamed genus 1"2 Lydekker 1889 parareptile
Maxillae ZPAL RV/734; ZPAL RV/739; dentary: ZPAL RV/733; vertebrae type B2 (Lubka 1999): ZPAL RV/840–842, 849, 851–853, 860, and numerous unnumbered specimens.
Procolophonidae "unnamed genus 2"2 Lydekker 1889 parareptile
Dentary fragment ZPAL RV/507; Vertebrae type B3 (Lubka 1999): ZPAL RV/767–772; ZPAL RV/846–870, and several unnumbered vertebrae
Procolophonidae "unnamed genus 3"2 Lydekker 1889 parareptile
ZPAL RV/716, dentary
Procolina teresae n. gen. n. sp.2 Borsuk−Białynicka and Lubka 2009 parareptile