Dorotka-Middle Vistula Valley, Opoka (Cretaceous of Poland)

Where: Poland (51.0° N, 21.8° E: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 20.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Bostrychoceras polyplocum (Kg2) zone, Opoka Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• JA: Polyplocum zone is late Campanian according to Ward and Orr 1997

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• yellowish-gray to gray siliceous marl, moderately hard, highly fossiliferous

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 28085: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Marcus Apel on 23.01.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
 Trochoidea - Nododelphinulidae
Trochacanthus monilifer snail
Trochacanthus tricarinatus monilifer
 Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana producta pointed nut clam
 Arcida - Arcidae
"Arca (Eonavicula) propinqua" = Eonavicula
"Arca (Eonavicula) propinqua" = Eonavicula clam