Celiny (Jurassic of Poland)

Where: Goluchow, Poland (50.9° N, 21.0° E: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 27.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Mt. Lysa Formation (Holy Cross Mountains Group), Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• Pure limestones (primarily oolites) grading into marlstones, locally even into soft marls; limestones range from micritic through various biocalcarites to shell hash and/or pure ostreid coquinas

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collection methods: Echinoids only; Samples obtained in Celiny, Poland

Primary reference: U. Radwanska. 1999. Lower Kimmeridgian echinoids of Poland. Acta Geologica Polonica 49(4):287-364 [M. Hopkins/S. Mahmood]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157219: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Shaun Mahmood on 09.06.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Rhabdocidaridae
Rhabdocidaris orbignyana Agassiz 1840 pencil urchin
 Pedinoida - Pedinidae
Pedina sublaevis sea urchin
 Holectypoida - Holectypidae
 Irregularia - Nucleolitidae