Where: Poland (51.2° N, 21.7° E: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 18.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Belemnella lanceolata (Md1) zone, Opoka Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Bed 1

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, gray, yellow, cherty/siliceous marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, original aragonite, original calcite, original silica

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 28077: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Marcus Apel on 22.01.2003

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