Busko-Spa 1 (Miocene of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.5° N, 20.8° E: paleocoordinates 50.8° N, 19.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Badenian (13.7 - 12.7 Ma)

• Badenian (Middle Miocene), from the algal-detrital limestone unit

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified, oncoidal, shelly/skeletal rudstone and intraclastic marl

• From description, appears to be shelly oncoidal rudstone with abundant rhodoliths

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace

Primary reference: W. Studencki. 1979. Sedimentation of algal limestones from Busko-Spa environs. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 27:155-165 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 37370: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 14.03.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Cirripedia
  -
Malacostraca
 Decapoda -
Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802 decapod
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Bittium sp. Gray 1847 cerith snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae
Rissoidae indet. Gray 1847 snail
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Gibbula sp. Risso 1826 top snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris sp. Da Costa 1778 clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Phacoides sp. Blainville 1825 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Venus sp. Linnaeus 1758 venus clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Terebratula sp. Müller 1776
 Terebratulida - Megathyrididae
Argyrotheca sp., "Megathyris sp." = Megathiris
Argyrotheca sp. Dall 1900
"Megathyris sp." = Megathiris d'Orbigny 1847
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
encrusting and erect forms
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Florideophyceae
 Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
Mesophyllum sp., "Lithothamnium sp." = Lithothamnion
Mesophyllum sp. Lemoine 1930
"Lithothamnium sp." = Lithothamnion Heydrich 1897
algal rhodoliths (calcareous red algal colony)
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Lithophyllum sp. Philippi 1837
algal rhodoliths
Foraminifera
 Foraminifera -
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
 Asterigerinacea - Amphisteginidae