Chomentow (Miocene of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.7° N, 20.5° E: paleocoordinates 51.0° N, 19.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; glauconitic sandstone

• coralline-algal limestones from Chomentow are about 5 meters thick and show no clear stratification.
• marly sands and sandstones

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: A. Pisera and W. Studencki. 1989. Middle Miocene rhodoliths from the Korytnica Basin (southern Poland): environmental significance and paleontology. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 34(3):179-209 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 149167: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 29.07.2013

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Taxonomic list

Florideophyceae
  - Corallinophycidae
Lithothamnion saxorum Capeder 1900
"Lithothamnion ramosissimum" = Lithothamnion romosissimum Reuss 1847
"Palaeothamnium archaeotypum" = Lithothamnion romosissimum Reuss 1847
Mesophyllum iraqense Johnson 1964
Lithophyllum bassanense Mastrorilli 1973
Lithophyllum albanense Lemoine 1924
Lithophyllum heteromorphum Mastrorilli 1967
Titanoderma nataliae Maslov 1956
? Titanoderma duplex Pisera and Studencki 1989