Myslenice and Tarnow areas, Grodziszcze Beds, Silesian and Sub-Silesian nappes (Cretaceous of Poland)

Where: Poland (49.8° N, 19.9° E: paleocoordinates 29.9° N, 28.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Grodziszcze Conglomerates Formation, Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• Original age call Barremian to Early Aptian, but newer data, partly based on dinoflagellates suggest rather Hauterivian-Barremian age (Ziaja, 1989). Barremian as compromise age

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Morycowa. 1975. Coral-bearing sediments in the Polish Carpathians. Trudy Instituta Geologii i Geofiziki 220:220-226 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64118: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.09.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Clausastrea aff. saltensis Alloiteau 1960 stony coral
Clausastrea alloiteaui Morycowa 1964 stony coral
Dimorphocoenia sp. de Fromentel 1857 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
"Ellipsocoenia hemispherica" = Favia hemispherica
"Ellipsocoenia hemispherica" = Favia hemispherica de Fromentel 1857 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Eugyridae
Eugyra lanckoronensis, "Felixigyra sp." = Eugyra (Felixigyra), "Eohydnophora aff. picteti" = Eugyra (Felixigyra) picteti
Eugyra lanckoronensis Morycowa 1964 stony coral
"Felixigyra sp." = Eugyra (Felixigyra) Prever 1909 stony coral
"Eohydnophora aff. picteti" = Eugyra (Felixigyra) picteti Koby 1897 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Cyathophoridae
"Pentacoenia pulchella" = Cyathophora pulchella d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral
Cyathophora steinmanni Fritzsche 1924 stony coral
Pseudocoenia sp. d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
"Stylina regularis" = Stylina digitiformis, "Heliocoenia carpathica" = Stylina inflata, Heliocoenia rozkowskae
"Stylina regularis" = Stylina digitiformis Achiardi 1880 stony coral
"Heliocoenia carpathica" = Stylina inflata Fromentel 1856 stony coral
Heliocoenia rozkowskae Morycowa 1964 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Microsolena sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
"Ellipsocoenia regularis" = Ovalastrea regularis d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral
Fungiastraea sp. Alloiteau 1952 stony coral
Microphyllia sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Haplaraeidae
Meandraraea sp. Etallon 1859 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
"Stereocoenia sp." = Stereocaenia
"Stereocoenia sp." = Stereocaenia Alloiteau 1952 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Diplocoenia sp. Fromentel 1857 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
Actinastraea minima Beauvais 1986 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Heterocoeniidae
Latusastrea exiquis stony coral
listed as Latusastraea
 Scleractinia - Pachyphylliidae
Columnocoenia ksiazkiewiczi Morycowa 1964 stony coral
 Helioporacea -
Actinastraea pseudominima
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