Lower Kock Beds of Kock IG-1 section (Devonian of Poland)
Where: Poland (51.6° N, 22.5° E: paleocoordinates 18.1° S, 6.1° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Acastella elsana zone, Lower Kock Beds Formation, Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, green claystone
• "The section ... represents a somewhat shallower zone [than Ciepielow and Barstow sections] in the marine basin at the Silurian-Devonian boundary...The Lower Kock Beds, bteween 845 and 820 m ... consist of grey greenish claystones laminated in places, with a relatively sparse fauna."
Collection methods: core
Primary reference: H. Tomczyk, M. Pajchlowa, and E. Tomczykowa. 1977. Poland. In A. Martinsson (ed.), The Silurian-Devonian boundary (IUGS Series A, No. 5) 65-83 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 13884: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 30.04.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
? Pisocrinus sp. de Koninck 1858 Sea lily | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Protathyris infantile" = Pseudoprotathyris infantilis
"Protathyris infantile" = Pseudoprotathyris infantilis Kozlowski 1929 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832 | |
Bivalvia | |
Pleurodapis sp. clam | |
Sedgwickia morini clam | |
Nuculites vaissierei clam | |
Malacostraca | |
Ceratiocaris sp. M'Coy 1849 |