Ciszyca Gorna, Middle Vistula Valley-opoka (Cretaceous of Poland)

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

• 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 28086: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Marcus Apel on 23.01.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Arcida - Limopsidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesiculare" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis
"Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesiculare" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
 Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Propeamussium (Parvamussium) inversum Nilsson 1827 mud scallop
 Carditida - Carditidae
 Poromyida - Cuspidariidae
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana producta pointed nut clam
Gastropoda
 Seguenzioidea - Eucyclidae
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Cerithium binodosum cerith snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae