Kowala Quarry, unit H-2, Holy Cross Mountains (Devonian of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.8° N, 20.6° E: paleocoordinates 18.8° S, 31.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Palmatolepis rhenana + Palmatolepis linguiformis conodont zone, Manticoceras Limestone Formation, 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 61841: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.07.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Athyris postconcentrica
Hexactinellida
 Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae
Polonospongia devonica n. gen. n. sp., Cordiospongia conica
Polonospongia devonica n. gen. n. sp. Rigby et al. 2001 glass sponge
Cordiospongia conica Rigby et al. 2001 glass sponge
Demospongiae
 Lithistida - Astylospongiidae
Devonoscyphia regulara, Astyloscyphia turbinata
Devonoscyphia regulara Rigby et al. 2001 demosponge
Astyloscyphia turbinata Rigby et al. 2001 demosponge