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 | |
Bivalvia | |
Mutiella coarctata clam | |
Cercomya harpa clam | |
Cuspidaria caudata clam | |
Nemocardium fenestratum cockle
Granocardium alutacium cockle
Granocardium (Criocardium) productum Sowerby 1832 cockle | |
Tenea cf. ovalis clam | |
Legumen fragilis venus clam | |
Gyropleura inequirostrata rudist | |
Panopea mandibula clam | |
Opis ventricosa clam
Astarte similis Munster 1840 clam | |
Tenuipteria argentea Conrad 1858 clam | |
Lyropecten (Aequipecten) acuteplicatus, Merklinia variabilis, Spondylus serratus, "Spondylus dutempleanus" = Spondylus fimbriatus
Lyropecten (Aequipecten) acuteplicatus Alth 1850 scallop more than 600 seperate valves from Kazimierz, Janowiec and the majority from Nasilow, Bochotnica
Merklinia variabilis Hagenow 1842 scallop
Spondylus serratus scallop
"Spondylus dutempleanus" = Spondylus fimbriatus Goldfuss 1835 scallop | |
Neithea sexcostata Woodward 1833 scallop | |
Plagiostoma cretacea, Plagiostoma hoperi, ? Pseudolimea granulata, "Limatula kunradensis" = Limatula, "Limatula ovata" = Limatula
Plagiostoma cretacea file clam
Plagiostoma hoperi Mantell 1822 file clam
? Pseudolimea granulata file clam
"Limatula kunradensis" = Limatula file clam
"Limatula ovata" = Limatula file clam | |
Hyotissa semiplana, "Pycnodonte (Phygaea) vesiculare" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis
Hyotissa semiplana Sowerby 1825 oyster
"Pycnodonte (Phygaea) vesiculare" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster | |
"Arca (Eonavicula) granulatoradiata" = Eonavicula clam
Barbatia geinitzi Reuss 1844 clam | |
Nuculana puschi pointed nut clam
Nuculana foersteri pointed nut clam | |
"Nucula truncata" = Portlandia arctica
"Nucula truncata" = Portlandia arctica Gray 1824 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Lemintina nodosa worm shell | |
Biplex cretaceus n. sp. triton shell
"Charonia (Sassia) tuberculosa" = Sassia triton shell
Charonia multicostata triton | |
Xenophora onusta Nilsson 1827 carrier shell | |
Arrhoges (Latiala) pelecyphora, Perissoptera emarginulata, Drepanocheilus substenoptera, Aporrhais pyriformis, ? Aporrhais nadjini, ? Aporrhais sp., Kaunhowenia carinifera
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Tibia laevis true conch | |
Rostellana aequecostata volute
Volutilithes kneri volute | |
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? Natica exaltata moon snail
? Natica cretacea Goldfuss 1841 moon snail | |
Cerithium mazureki n. sp. cerith snail
Bittium (Semibittium) triptychum cerith snail | |
Laxispira cochleiformis turret shell
"Turritella (Haustator) plana" = Haustator turret shell
Turritella hagenoviana turret shell | |
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 | |
Tornatellaea kongieli n. sp.
Tornatellaea kongieli n. sp. snail | |
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Anthozoa | |
Madrepora sp. Linne 1758 stony coral |