Holy Cross (Miocene to of Poland)

Where: Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland (50.5° N, 20.5° E: paleocoordinates 50.9° N, 19.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Pinczow Formation, Langhian to Langhian (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

• The lowermost part of the Pinczow Limestones is composed of undistinctIy, very-thick

•bedded, fme organodetrital deposits, which pass upwardly into coarse-grained organodetrital

•limestones (see PI. 1, Figs 1-2). Here and there, the rhodoliths are particularly common and theybuild the rhodolith pavement. The sequence is interrupted once (in the northern part) or twice (insouthern) by marly limestones with abundant bryozoans Ceiieporaria, and thus called the Lower and the Upper Celleporan Bed

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: A. Drewniak. 1994. Coralline algae from the Pinczow Limestones (Middle Miocene; southern slopes of the Holy Cross Mountains, Central Poland) as environmental indicators. Acta Geologica Polonica 44(1-2):117-135 [M. Clapham/K. Hassell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 221512: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Keenan Hassell on 10.08.2021

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Florideophyceae
 Sporolithales - Corallinophycidae
Sporolithon keenani