Żarki, excavation for building construction (Jurassic of Poland)

Also known as Zarki

Where: Poland (50.6° N, 19.4° E: paleocoordinates 42.4° N, 26.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cardioceras cordatum ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• Cordatum Zone (Costicardia Subzone)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Museum of the Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw (ZI)

Primary reference: E. Głowniak. 2012. The perisphinctid genus Prososphinctes Schindewolf (Ammonoidea, subfamily Prososphinctinae nov.): an indicator of palaeoecological changes in the Early Oxfordian Submediterranean sea of southern Poland. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 264:117-179 [M. Clapham/R. Valdez/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 229603: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.03.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Prososphinctes consociatus Bukowski 1887 ammonite