Friedrichshütte, Tarnowitz (Triassic of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.5° N, 18.8° E: paleocoordinates 18.5° N, 24.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Karchowice Formation, Pelsonian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• At Tarnowitz, the ore is in two levels in the lower Muschelkalk, just above the "Sohlenkalksten" (floor limestone, the lowest unit of the Muschelkalk).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Mentzel

Primary reference: L. von Buch. 1843. Über Terebratula mentzelii im tarnowitzer Muschelkalke. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefakten-Kunde 1843:253-256 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 117418: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.09.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
"Terebratula mentzelii n. sp." = Costirhynchopsis mentzeli
"Terebratula mentzelii n. sp." = Costirhynchopsis mentzeli von Buch 1843