Where: Poland (51.3° N, 22.0° E: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 18.6° E)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Belemnella kasimiroviensis zone, opoka Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• the author marked A, B, C are the lower, middle and the upper horizons of the marly opoka exposed at Kazimierz.
•A horizon
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: peritidal; poorly lithified, gray, yellow, cherty/siliceous marl
•Sandy marly opoka, slightly glauconitic, in the uppermost part of the Maastrichtian
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
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 27822: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Marcus Apel on 14.01.2003, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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