Wierzchowisko locality, abandoned quarry (Cretaceous of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.4° N, 19.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 18.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sphenoceramus patootensiformis foram zone, Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• upper Sphenoceramus patootensiformis and lower Cataceramus dariensis–Sphaeroceramus sarumensis inoceramid Zones

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: chert and marl

• opoka with cherts and marly intercalations

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Jurkowska, E. Świerczewska-Gładysz, E. Dubicka and D. Olszewska-Nejbert. 2015. Porosphaera globularis (Phillips, 1829) (Porifera, Calcarea) in the Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of extra-Carpathian Poland. Acta Geologica Polonica 65(1):121-139 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 197782: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 26.11.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Calcarea
 Lithonida - Minchinellidae
Porosphaera globularis
Porosphaera globularis Phillips 1829 calcareous sponge