Rakow, Czestochowa region, Slaskie (Jurassic to of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.8° N, 19.2° E: paleocoordinates 42.0° N, 26.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Bathonian to Middle Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• Late or possibly Mid Bathonian; a single sample (10kg)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; poorly lithified claystone and poorly lithified, silty claystone

• Most of the gastropods studied in this monograph come from clayey facies of more or less open sea environments (there is no detailed information for the distinct localities provided).
• The section esposes clay and silty clay.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collection methods: sieve,

• Rock samples collected over the period 1995-2002; the material is housed at the Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS) in Warsaw (abbreviated ZPAL) and the Museum of the Earth PAS in Warsaw (abbreviated MZ).

Primary reference: A. Kaim. 2004. The evolution of conch ontogeny in Mesozoic open sea gastropods. Palaeontologia Polonica 62:1-183 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63081: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 04.08.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Focus on gastropods.
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Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Cryptaulacidae
Cryptaulax "sp. 1"