Pinczow Limestone, branching algae facies (Miocene of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.5° N, 20.5° E: paleocoordinates 50.9° N, 19.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Pinczow Formation, Badenian (13.7 - 12.7 Ma)

• Middle Miocene (Badenian)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• The red-algal limestones have been reported bath from

•the southern slopes of the Swie$okrzyskie Mts. and Lublin Upland, and from the northern Carpathian border. The densilty of sampling was higher where

•limestones with in-plance algal accumulations occur but lower in purely orgainodetrital limestones. Because of the poor expasure the samples were frequently taken from the weathering zone.

• Main rock-forming element of diverse calcareous and/or marly

•and sandy deposits. Composed of large, mainly sphaeroidal rhodoliths,the internal structure of which shows typically three growth stages: branching nucleus, laminar stage, and columnar stage.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: W. Studencki. 1988. Red algae from the Pinczow limestones (middle Miocene, Swietokrzyskie mountains, Poland). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 33(1):3-57 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138305: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 10.01.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Florideophyceae
  - Corallinophycidae
Jania dniestrovica Maslov 1961
Lithophyllum besalotos Johnson 1962
Lithophyllum albanense Lemoine 1924
Lithophyllum minimum Mastrorilli 1967
Mesophyllum rigidum Mastrorilli 1967
Mesophyllum laffittei Lemoine 1939
Lithothamnium cf. viallii Mastrorilli 1973
"Archaeolithothamnium keenani" = Sporolithon keenani Howe 1934
Foraminifera
 Foraminifera -
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Plagiocardium papillosum Poli 1781 cockle
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Venus multilamella" = Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella
"Venus multilamella" = Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella Lamarck 1818 venus clam
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Bittium sp. Gray 1847 cerith snail