Where: Poland (50.9° N, 21.1° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 2.3° N, 32.0° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Monograptus angustidens graptolite zone, Pridoli to Pridoli (423.0 - 410.8 Ma)
• PJW: Was just Pridoli, but M. angustidens zone is basal Lochkovian.
Environment/lithology: marine; gray claystone and calcareous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: "The Bostow section is a compilation based on a borehole, Bowtow IG-1, and exposures either at the surface or below Quaternary deposits..."
Primary reference: H. Tomczyk, M. Pajchlowa, and E. Tomczykowa. 1977. Poland. In A. Martinsson (ed.), The Silurian-Devonian boundary (IUGS Series A, No. 5) 65-83 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 13877: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 30.04.2002
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Acastella sp. Reed 1925 trilobite | |
Cephalopoda | |
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculites sp. Conrad 1841 clam
Nuculites unisulcus clam | |
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Leiopteria opportuna Barrande 1881 oyster | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Strophomenata | |
Shaleria sp. Caster 1939 | |
Pterobranchia | |
Monograptus sp. graptolite
Monograptus angustidens Pribyl 1940 graptolite | |
Linograptus sp. graptolite |