Where: Poland (51.1° N, 21.8° E: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 20.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Didymoceras donezianum (Kg3) zone, Opoka Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• JA: Donezanium zone is late Campanian according to Ward and Orr 1997
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, gray, yellow, cherty/siliceous marl
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 28086: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Marcus Apel on 23.01.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesiculare" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis
"Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesiculare" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster | |
Propeamussium (Parvamussium) inversum Nilsson 1827 mud scallop | |
Cuspidaria caudata clam | |
Pholadomya (Procardia) decussata Mantell 1822 clam | |
Nuculana producta pointed nut clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Cerithium binodosum cerith snail | |
Aporrhais granulosa snail |