Sosnowica Hill Quarry (Triassic to of Poland)

Where: Swietokrzyskie, Poland (50.9° N, 20.7° E: paleocoordinates 18.7° N, 26.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tumlin Sandstone Member, Induan to Induan (252.2 - 247.2 Ma)

• "the age of the Tumlin Sandstone is determined here as the latest (uppermost) Permian (Dorashamian), very close to the Permian–Triassic boundary. The status of the Lundbladispora obsoleta–Protohaploxypinus pantii Assemblage Zone supports this interpretation (Ptaszyński and Niedźwiedzki 2002). This also allows us to assign a Late Permian age to the considerable part of the Lower Buntsandstein (in the sense of Kuleta and Nawrocki 2000, see also Ptaszyński and Niedźwiedzki 2002) outcropping in the Holy Cross Mountains." (Ptaszyński and Niedźwiedzki 2004)

•Racki (2005) disputes this, and suggests an Early Triassic age for this fauna.

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collection methods: Muz. PIG OS - Holy Cross Branch of the Polish Geological Institute, Kielce

Primary reference: T. Ptaszyński and G. Niedźwiedzki. 2004. Late Permian vertebrate tracks from the Tumlin Sandstone, Holy Cross Mountains, Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 49(2):289-320 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197231: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 26.10.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
  -
Amphisauropus cf. latus Haubold 1970 tetrapod
Muz. PIG OS− 220/5A: 1, 2 left set of pedal and manual imprints; Muz. PIG OS−220/5B: 1 isolated, possibly manual imprint; Muz. PIG OS 220/11 left pedal imprint
Batrachichnus cf. salamandroides Geinitz 1861 tetrapod
"small, poorly preserved imprints"
Osteichthyes
 Cotylosauria -
Varanopus aff. microdactylus Pabst 1896 tetrapod
Muz. PIG OS−220/2A; Muz. PIG OS−220/2B; Muz. PIG OS−220/2C plaster casts of parts of the surface with mass occurred imprints
Reptilia
 Squamata -
Rhynchosauroides kuletae Ptaszyński and Niedźwiedzki 2004 squamates
Muz. PIG OS−220/1 set of right pedal and manual imprints; Muz. PIG OS−220/6: 1, 2 set of left pedal and manual imprints