Jazwica Quarry (Lgawa Hill), units P-R, Holy Cross Mountains (Devonian of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.8° N, 20.5° E: paleocoordinates 18.8° S, 31.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Frasnian (379.5 - 376.1 Ma)

• Late Frasnian, Checiny-Zbrza (southern) intrashelf basin, P. rhenana and P. linguiformis zones

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone

• deeper parts of the reef slopes, usually below storm wave base
• thin layers, up to 0.1 m thick, of irregularly banded or nodular, grey or reddish cherry-weathering marly limestones as a part of an interbedded shaly-carbonate sequence that also contains rare brachiopod bioclastic limestone intercalations and black chert beds

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

• brachiopods and corals reported to be present, but not listed

Primary reference: J. K. Rigby, A. Pisera, T. T. Wrzolek and G. Racki. 2001. Upper Devonian sponges from the Holy Cross Mountains, central Poland. Palaeontology 44(3):447-488 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61840: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.07.2006, edited by Jocelyn Sessa

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
 Lithistida - Astylospongiidae
Astylotuba modica n. gen. n. sp. Rigby et al. 2001 demosponge
Astyloscyphia irregularia n. gen. n. sp. Rigby et al. 2001 demosponge
Astyloscyphia turbinata n. sp. Rigby et al. 2001 demosponge
Jazwicella media n. gen. n. sp. Rigby et al. 2001 demosponge
Devonoscyphia sanctacrucensis Hurcewicz 1985 demosponge
Devonoscyphia regulara n. sp. Rigby et al. 2001 demosponge
Hexactinellida
 Hexactinosa - Euretidae
Paleoramospongia bifurcata n. gen. n. sp., Paleoregulara cupula n. gen. n. sp.
Paleoramospongia bifurcata n. gen. n. sp. Rigby et al. 2001 glass sponge
Paleoregulara cupula n. gen. n. sp. Rigby et al. 2001 glass sponge
 Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae
Conicospongia annulata n. gen. n. sp. Rigby et al. 2001 glass sponge
Polonospongia fistulata n. sp. Rigby et al. 2001 glass sponge
Polonospongia devonica Rigby et al. 2001 glass sponge
Urnospongia modica n. gen. n. sp. Rigby et al. 2001 glass sponge
Paleocraticularia elongata Rigby et al. 2001 glass sponge
Paleocraticularia gigantia n. sp. Rigby et al. 2001 glass sponge
Cordiospongia conica n. gen. n. sp. Rigby et al. 2001 glass sponge
Anthozoa
 Rugosa - Charactophyllidae
 Stauriida - Acervulariidae
"Frechastraea pentagona" = Acervularia pentagona5
"Frechastraea pentagona" = Acervularia pentagona5 Goldfuss 1826 horn coral
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
 Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae
 Rugosa - Chonophyllidae
 Rugosa -
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora volkensis4, "Armalites minimus n. sp." = Sapounofouskilites minimus4
Syringopora volkensis4 tabulate coral
"Armalites minimus n. sp." = Sapounofouskilites minimus4 Nowinski 1992 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Aulocystidae
Aulocystis tikhyiformis4 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Gracilopora vermicularis4 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites edwardsi4 tabulate coral
subsp. frasnianus
Alveolites maillieuxi4 tabulate coral
Alveolites taenioformis4 tabulate coral
subsp. minor
Alveolites tenuissimus4 Lecompte 1933 tabulate coral
Rhynchonellata
 Pentamerida - Gypidulidae
"Neometabolipa duponti" = Gypidula1, "Metabolipa cf. greindli" = Gypidula1
"Neometabolipa duponti" = Gypidula1
3 pedicle and 2 brachial valves damaged, 1 pedicle and 1 brachial valve very small and fragmentary
"Metabolipa cf. greindli" = Gypidula1
1 brachial valve and 1 pedicle valve, incomplete
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Athyridida - Meristidae
Ostracoda
  - Buregiidae
 Palaeocopida - Pribylitidae
"Parapribylites (Parapribylites) hanaicus" = Pribylites3
"Parapribylites (Parapribylites) hanaicus" = Pribylites3 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Amphissitidae
Amphissites sp.3 Girty 1910 ostracod
Amphissites sp. A
 Platycopida - Knoxitidae
"Uchtovia refrathensis" = Sargentina3
"Uchtovia refrathensis" = Sargentina3 ostracod
 Platycopida - Paraparchitidae
 Podocopida -
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
 Podocopida - Bairdiocyprididae
Bairdiocypris sp.3 Kegel 1932 ostracod