Where: Poland (51.3° N, 22.0° E: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 18.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Belemnella kazimiroviensis zone, Opoka Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Bed 2
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, burrowed, hardground, gray carbonate
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,
Primary reference: G. I. Abdel-Gawad. 1986. Maastrichtian non-cephalopod mollusks: Scaphopoda, Gastropoda and Bivalvia of the Middle Vistula Valley, central Poland. Acta Geologica Polonica 36(1-3):69-224 [W. Kiessling/M. Apel/M. Apel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 27819: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Marcus Apel on 14.01.2003, edited by Uta Merkel
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium multicostatum tusk shell
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
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Tornatellaea kongieli n. sp.
Tornatellaea kongieli n. sp. snail | |
Cerithium mazureki n. sp. cerith snail
Bittium (Semibittium) triptychum cerith snail | |
Turritella hagenoviana turret shell
"Turritella (Haustator) plana" = Haustator turret shell
Laxispira cochleiformis turret shell | |
Lemintina nodosa worm shell | |
Biplex cretaceus n. sp. triton shell
"Charonia (Sassia) tuberculosa" = Sassia triton shell
Charonia multicostata triton | |
Xenophora onusta Nilsson 1827 carrier shell | |
Tibia laevis true conch | |
Arrhoges (Latiala) pelecyphora, Perissoptera emarginulata, Aporrhais pyriformis, ? Aporrhais nadjini, ? Aporrhais sp., Kaunhowenia carinifera, Drepanocheilus substenoptera
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Rostellana aequecostata volute
Volutilithes kneri volute | |
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? Natica exaltata moon snail
? Natica cretacea Goldfuss 1841 moon snail | |
? Margarites leavis snail | |
Trochacanthus nilssoni snail | |
Chilodonta rudis snail | |
Cylichna faba Kner 1869 snail | |
Tudicla carinata snail
Tudicla althi snail
Tudicla globosa n. sp. snail
Tudicla sp. Röding 1798 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Nucula truncata" = Portlandia arctica
"Nucula truncata" = Portlandia arctica Gray 1824 clam | |
Nuculana puschi pointed nut clam
Nuculana foersteri pointed nut clam | |
"Pycnodonte (Phygaea) vesiculare" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis, Hyotissa semiplana
"Pycnodonte (Phygaea) vesiculare" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
Hyotissa semiplana Sowerby 1825 oyster | |
"Limatula kunradensis" = Limatula, "Limatula ovata" = Limatula, Plagiostoma cretacea, Plagiostoma hoperi, ? Pseudolimea granulata
"Limatula kunradensis" = Limatula file clam
"Limatula ovata" = Limatula file clam
Plagiostoma cretacea file clam
Plagiostoma hoperi Mantell 1822 file clam
? Pseudolimea granulata file clam | |
Merklinia variabilis, Lyropecten (Aequipecten) acuteplicatus, Spondylus serratus, "Spondylus dutempleanus" = Spondylus fimbriatus
Merklinia variabilis Hagenow 1842 scallop
Lyropecten (Aequipecten) acuteplicatus Alth 1850 scallop more than 600 seperate valves from Kazimierz, Janowiec and the majority from Nasilow, Bochotnica
Spondylus serratus scallop
"Spondylus dutempleanus" = Spondylus fimbriatus Goldfuss 1835 scallop | |
Neithea sexcostata Woodward 1833 scallop | |
Tenuipteria argentea Conrad 1858 clam | |
Barbatia geinitzi Reuss 1844 clam
"Arca (Eonavicula) granulatoradiata" = Eonavicula clam | |
Mutiella coarctata clam | |
Cuspidaria caudata clam | |
Cercomya harpa clam | |
Gyropleura inequirostrata rudist | |
Legumen fragilis venus clam | |
Tenea cf. ovalis clam | |
Nemocardium fenestratum cockle
Granocardium alutacium cockle
Granocardium (Criocardium) productum Sowerby 1832 cockle | |
Panopea mandibula clam | |
Opis ventricosa clam
Astarte similis Munster 1840 clam | |
Anthozoa | |
Madrepora sp. Linne 1758 stony coral |