Kostomloty quarry - sample 15 [Kowala Fm] (Devonian of Poland)

Where: Kostomloty, Poland (50.9° N, 20.6° E: paleocoordinates 18.7° S, 31.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kowala Formation, Late/Upper Frasnian (379.5 - 376.1 Ma)

• AGE: late Frasnian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: from sample 15, below the Frasnian-Famennian boundary.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal packstone and lithified, shelly/skeletal packstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Open marine fore-shoal environments.
• LITHOLOGY: Wackestones and packstones rich in bioclasts. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies description.

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: recrystallized

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• COLLECTORS: Not stated in text. REPOSITORY: Not stated, but possibly housed at the State Geological Institute in Warsaw (PIG).

Primary reference: J.-G. Casier, X. Devleeschouwer, F. Lethiers, A. Preat, and G. Racki. 2000. Ostracods and sedimentology of the Frasnian-Famennian boundary beds in the Kostomloty section (Holy Cross Mountains, Poland). Bulletin de l'Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 70:53-74 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162214: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 20.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for ostracods; other taxa mentioned, but not specified. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with apparently modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
unclassified
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Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Bairdiocyprididae
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
 Podocopida - Acratiidae
 Leperditellocopida - Graviidae