Wạwał clay pit (lower "Valanginian") (Cretaceous of Poland)

Also known as Wawal

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• Platylenticeras cf. gevrili d'Orbigny is an ammonite characteristic of the lower part

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; unlithified, concretionary, ferruginous, sandy claystone

• Dark-gray sandy clays with limonite concretions, ferruginous oolites and timber splinters

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H. Pugaczewska, J. Drobiecka in 1970

Primary reference: H. Pugaczewska. 1975. Neocomian oysters from central Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 20(1):47-72 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 213515: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.09.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sanctaecrucis, Ostrea germaini
Ostrea sanctaecrucis Pictet and Campiche 1869 oyster
Ostrea germaini Coquand 1869 oyster