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 zone, Opoka Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Bed 2
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, burrowed, hardground, gray carbonate
Size class: macrofossils
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 27819: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Marcus Apel on 14.01.2003, edited by Uta Merkel
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium multicostatum tusk shell
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Cerithium mazureki n. sp. cerith snail
Bittium (Semibittium) triptychum cerith snail | |
Turritella hagenoviana turret shell
"Turritella (Haustator) plana" = Haustator turret shell
Laxispira cochleiformis turret shell | |
? Natica exaltata moon snail
? Natica cretacea Goldfuss 1841 moon snail | |
Lemintina nodosa worm shell | |
Charonia multicostata triton
"Charonia (Sassia) tuberculosa" = Sassia triton shell
Biplex cretaceus n. sp. triton shell | |
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Rostellana aequecostata volute
Volutilithes kneri volute | |
Kaunhowenia carinifera, Aporrhais pyriformis, ? Aporrhais nadjini, ? Aporrhais sp., Arrhoges (Latiala) pelecyphora, Perissoptera emarginulata, Drepanocheilus substenoptera
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Tibia laevis true conch | |
Xenophora onusta Nilsson 1827 carrier shell | |
Tornatellaea kongieli n. sp.
Tornatellaea kongieli n. sp. snail | |
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Trochacanthus nilssoni snail | |
? Margarites leavis snail | |
Chilodonta rudis snail | |
Tudicla carinata snail
Tudicla althi snail
Tudicla globosa n. sp. snail
Tudicla sp. Röding 1798 snail | |
Cylichna faba Kner 1869 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculana puschi pointed nut clam
Nuculana foersteri pointed nut clam | |
"Nucula truncata" = Portlandia arctica
"Nucula truncata" = Portlandia arctica Gray 1824 clam | |
Cercomya harpa clam | |
Cuspidaria caudata clam | |
Panopea mandibula clam | |
Gyropleura inequirostrata rudist | |
Tenea cf. ovalis clam | |
Legumen fragilis venus clam | |
Nemocardium fenestratum cockle
Granocardium alutacium cockle
Granocardium (Criocardium) productum Sowerby 1832 cockle | |
Mutiella coarctata clam | |
Astarte similis Munster 1840 clam
Opis ventricosa clam | |
Tenuipteria argentea Conrad 1858 clam | |
Neithea sexcostata Woodward 1833 scallop | |
Merklinia variabilis, Lyropecten (Aequipecten) acuteplicatus, Spondylus serratus, "Spondylus dutempleanus" = Spondylus fimbriatus
Merklinia variabilis Hagenow 1842 scallop
Lyropecten (Aequipecten) acuteplicatus Alth 1850 scallop more than 600 seperate valves from Kazimierz, Janowiec and the majority from Nasilow, Bochotnica
Spondylus serratus scallop
"Spondylus dutempleanus" = Spondylus fimbriatus Goldfuss 1835 scallop | |
"Limatula kunradensis" = Limatula, "Limatula ovata" = Limatula, Plagiostoma cretacea, Plagiostoma hoperi, ? Pseudolimea granulata
"Limatula kunradensis" = Limatula file clam
"Limatula ovata" = Limatula file clam
Plagiostoma cretacea file clam
Plagiostoma hoperi Mantell 1822 file clam
? Pseudolimea granulata file clam | |
Hyotissa semiplana, "Pycnodonte (Phygaea) vesiculare" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis
Hyotissa semiplana Sowerby 1825 oyster
"Pycnodonte (Phygaea) vesiculare" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster | |
Barbatia geinitzi Reuss 1844 clam
"Arca (Eonavicula) granulatoradiata" = Eonavicula clam | |
Anthozoa | |
Madrepora sp. Linne 1758 stony coral |