Upper Podlasian fauna at Bostow section (Silurian to of Poland)

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

• "..consist of grey and dark grey claystones with a few laminae of marly siltstones with poor faunal remains..."

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
 Phacopida - Acastidae
Treveropyge sp. Struve 1958 trilobite
Genus name in quotes
Acastella sp. Reed 1925 trilobite
Cephalopoda
 Nautiloidea -
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
Nuculites sp. Conrad 1841 clam
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo cf. constricta Conrad 1842 clam
[entered as Paleoneilo constricta]
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Leiopteria opportuna Barrande 1881 oyster
 Myalinida - Lunulacardiidae
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
  -
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Shaleriidae
Shaleria sp. Caster 1939
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Monograptidae
Monograptus sp. graptolite
Monograptus angustidens Pribyl 1940 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Cryptograptidae
Linograptus sp. graptolite