Kowala Fm - Set E, Kowala section (Devonian of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.8° N, 20.6° E: paleocoordinates 20.5° S, 33.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kowala Formation, Middle Frasnian (382.4 - 379.5 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: THICKNESS: From equivalent strata to the upper Sitkowka beds of the Kowala Formation, equivalent in regional section to that of the Kadzielnia Mbr. AGE: Middle Frasnian according to Fig. 2 of Krawczynski (2002). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From set E, middle part of Kowala section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Kadzienia-type mud mound, in otherwise bank to reef facies, adjoining detrital and coral-rich buildups. TECTONIC SETTING: No tectonic data reported. SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY: Unknown position in sequence stratigraphic framework.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Grainstone . GENERAL LITHOLOGY: Biolithites and organodetrital limestones. Detailed lithological data reported by Racki (1993). LITHIFICATION: lithified, based on observatio of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collection methods: COLLECTOR: W. Krawczynski (1995-2000), Racki (1976-1994), Gürich (1896). REPOSITORY: ZPAL (Polish Akademy of Science, Warsaw), MGUWr (Geological Museum of the Institute of Geological Sciences of Wroclaw University), GIUS (Faculty of Earth Sciences of Silesian University, Sosnoweic.

Primary reference: M. Krawczyński. 2002. Frasnian gastropod synecology and bio-events in the Dyminy reef complex of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 47(2):267-288 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62180: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 13.07.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COMPLETENESS: Limited to gastropoda, possibly exhaustive for that group. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, modern nomenclature.
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Subulitidae
Subulitidae indet. Lindström 1884 snail