Zalas, bed 10 (Jurassic of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.1° N, 19.6° E: paleocoordinates 41.9° N, 26.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Plicatilis ammonoid zone, Jasna Gora Formation, Middle Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• early Middle Oxfordian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified marl

• below wave base, water depth 150-200 m
• marl and marly limestones with ammonites, sponges, brachiopods

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Trammer. 1982. Lower to Middle Oxfordian sponges of the Polish Jura. Acta Geologica Polonica 32:1-39 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 114252: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.08.2011

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Taxonomic list

Hexactinellida
 Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae
"Thyroidium schweiggeri" = Dictyonocoelia schweiggeri
"Thyroidium schweiggeri" = Dictyonocoelia schweiggeri Goldfuss 1829 glass sponge
 Hexactinosa - Staurodermatidae
 Hexactinosa -
Rhogostomium corrugatum Schrammen 1937 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Sporadopylidae
Xenoschrammenum alternans Schrammen 1937 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Ventriculitidae
"Placotelia marcoui" = Discophyma
"Placotelia marcoui" = Discophyma glass sponge
Demospongiae
 Spirosclerophorida - Discostromatidae
Hyalotragos patella Goldfuss 1826 demosponge
 Spirosclerophorida - Cnemidiastridae
"Cnemidiastrum rimulosum" = Cnemopeltia (Cnemopeltia) rimulosum Goldfuss 1826 demosponge
Cnemidiastrum stellatum Goldfuss 1826 demosponge