NM5, Nowiny, Lower Vistula Valley Region (Pleistocene of Poland)

Where: Poland (53.9° N, 19.3° E: paleocoordinates 53.9° N, 19.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Vistula Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• Eemian Interglacial

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified sandstone

• formed during Tychnowy Sequence; transgression of Tychnowy sea
• marine sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: A. Makowska. 1986. Morza plejstocenskie w Polsce; osady, wiek i paleogeografia [Pleistocene seas in Poland; sediments, age and paleogeography]. Prace Instytutu Geologicznego 120:74 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64001: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 29.08.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Caenogastropoda -
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Bittium reticulatum Montagu 1803 cerith snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Hydrobiidae
Hydrobia ulvae Pennat 1777 snail
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Nassa reticulata true whelk
 Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae
 Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
 Opisthobranchia - Retusidae
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus edulis Linnaeus 1758 mussel
 Solenida - Solenidae
"Ensis ensis" = Solen ensis
"Ensis ensis" = Solen ensis Linnaeus 1767 clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
"Corbula gibba" = Corbula (Varicorbula) gibba
"Corbula gibba" = Corbula (Varicorbula) gibba Oliva 1792 clam
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Arctica islandica Linnaeus 1767 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Venerupis aurea venus clam
ssp. senescens
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Spisula subtruncata da Costa 1778 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Cardiida - Semelidae
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Macoma balthica" = Macoma (Macoma) balthica
"Macoma balthica" = Macoma (Macoma) balthica Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam
 Cardiida - Lasaeidae
"Mysella bidentata" = Diarmaidia bidentata
"Mysella bidentata" = Diarmaidia bidentata Montague 1803 kelly clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae