Dobrogoszczyce, Planula/Platynota Zone, Polish Jura (Jurassic to of Poland)

Also known as Reef 3436

Where: Poland (50.6° N, 19.6° E: paleocoordinates 42.4° N, 26.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Oxfordian to Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 150.8 Ma)

• uppermost Oxfordian or lowermost Kimmeridgian; Planula Zone or Platynota Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• crinoid limestones with corals; thick-bedded, extremely rich in crinoid stem fragments and with abundant and diverse assemblage of solitary and colonial corals

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: sponges only; crinoids, corals (15 genera) and gastropods reported to be present, but not listed

Primary reference: J. Trammer. 1989. Middle to Upper Oxfordian sponges of the Polish Jura. Acta Geologica Polonica 39(1-4):49-91 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 60857: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.05.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Pharetronida
 Pharetronida -
Pharetronida indet.
Pharetronida indet. Zittel 1878
Calcarea
 Calcaronea - Stellispongiidae
Peronidella cylindrica, Holcospongia glomerata
Peronidella cylindrica Goldfuss 1826 calcareous sponge
Holcospongia glomerata calcareous sponge
Hexactinellida
 Hexasterophora -
Hexactinosa indet.
Hexactinosa indet. Schrammen 1903 glass sponge
 Hexactinosa - Cribrospongiidae
"Tremadictyon reticulatum" = Cribrospongia reticulata
"Tremadictyon reticulatum" = Cribrospongia reticulata Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge