sample 4 (Cretaceous of Poland)

Where: Gmina Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland (51.5° N, 20.1° E: paleocoordinates 43.1° N, 26.6° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: petransiens ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• Bed names not indicated.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone

• The alternating sandy and clayey-sandy succession, overlying the Opoczki Member was distinguished as the Bodzanów Formation, and determined on the grounds of ammonites as the higher part of the Lower Valanginian (“Beds with Polyplychiles").

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: P. S. Dziadzio, E. Gaździcka, I. Ploch and J. Smoleń. 2004. Biostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy of the Lower Cretaceous in central and SE Poland. Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 74(2):125-196 [A. Rojas/A. Rojas/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192515: authorized by Alexis Rojas, entered by Alexis Rojas on 11.04.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Polyptychitidae
Platylenticeras (Tolypeceras) fragile