PBDB Collection

Gliniany Las tracksite (Jurassic of Poland)

Where: Swietokrzyskie, Poland (50.9° N, 21.6° E: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 19.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Przysucha Formation, Late/Upper Hettangian (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)

• upper part of formation, also called "Przysucha Ore-bearing Formation" or "Series"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; burrowed, bioturbated sandstone and mudstone

• Lagoon interpretation based on Pienkowski (1983, 1985).

• Dinosaur tracks found in mudstone; other trace fossils found in sandstones which predominate the section. Features listed in illustration, not text: "ripple marks"; "crawling traces", "feeding traces", and "dwelling structures" of invertebrates; "horizontal lamination"; "tabular bedding"; "horizontal wavy lamination"; "trough cross bedding"; "ripple-drift cross lamination".

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collected by Karaszewski, Gierlinski in 1959-1986

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: G. Gierlinksi and A. Potemska. 1987. Lower Jurassic dinosaur footprints from Gliniany Las, northern slope of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 175(1):107-120 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 28334: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 10.02.2003

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
Loricata - Protosuchidae	Protosuchus sp. Protosuchus sp. Brown 1934 crocodilian
Theropoda - Anchisauripodidae	cf. Stenonyx sp.² cf. Stenonyx sp.² Lull 1904 theropod Muz PIG 1560.II23
Theropoda - Grallatoridae	Grallator sp.⁴ Grallator sp.⁴ Hitchcock 1858 theropod MUZ PIG 1562.11.33
Theropoda -	Grallator (Grallator) zvierzi n. sp.¹, Kayentapus sp.³ Grallator (Grallator) zvierzi n. sp.¹ Gierlinski 1991 theropod MGIW 1560.II.9, 13 Kayentapus sp.³ Welles 1971 theropod
Ornithischia - Moyenisauropodidae	Anomoepus pienkovskii n. sp.¹, "Moyenisauropus sp." = Anomoepus, Moyenisauropus karaszevskii n. sp.¹, "Anomoepus curvatus" = Anomoepus scambus⁴ Anomoepus pienkovskii n. sp.¹ Gierlinski 1991 ornithopod MGIW 1560.II.20, Muz PIG 1662.II.1 "Moyenisauropus sp." = Anomoepus Hitchcock 1848 ornithopod MGIW 1560.II.8 Moyenisauropus karaszevskii n. sp.¹ Gierlinski 1991 ornithopod MGIW 1560.II.9 "Anomoepus curvatus" = Anomoepus scambus⁴ Hitchcock 1848 ornithopod MUZ PIG 1560.11.21
Ornithischia -	cf. Wintonopus sp.⁴ cf. Wintonopus sp.⁴ Thulborn and Wade 1984 ornithopod MGIW 1560.II.9B
Saurischia -	Plesiornis pilulatus⁴ Plesiornis pilulatus⁴ Hitchcock 1858 saurischian MUZ PIG 1560.11.38

¹Gierlinski 1991; ²Gierlinski and Niedzwiedzki 2002; ³Gierlinski and Niedzwiedzki 2005; ⁴Gierlinski and Pienkowski 1999