Goluchowice, Silesia, Poland (Triassic of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.5° N, 19.3° E: paleocoordinates 20.4° N, 22.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wilkowice Beds Formation, Fassanian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• Upper Muschelkalk

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• Bioclastic limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Only Ceratites described but other groups are said to be present

Primary reference: M. A. Salamon, M. K. Eagle, and R. Niedzwiedzki. 2003. A new ceratite record from Upper Silesia (Poland). Geological Quarterly 47:281-287 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45420: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 22.10.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Ceratitidae
Ceratites sp., Ceratites (Opheoceratites) compressus, Ceratites (Acanthoceratites) cf. spinosus, Ceratites (Acanthoceratites) cf. praespinosus
Ceratites sp. de Haan 1825 ceratite
Ceratites (Opheoceratites) compressus Sandberger-Philippi 1901 ceratite