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 | |
"Terebratula mentzelii n. sp." = Costirhynchopsis mentzeli
"Terebratula mentzelii n. sp." = Costirhynchopsis mentzeli von Buch 1843 |