Mt. Giewont, High-Tatra (Cretaceous of Poland)

Where: Poland (49.3° N, 19.9° E: paleocoordinates 29.1° N, 28.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wysoka Turnia Limestone Formation, Early/Lower Aptian (121.4 - 122.5 Ma)

• ?Late Barremian-Early Aptian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• reef breccia

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Morycowa and J. Lefeld. 1966. Les madreporaires des calcaires urgoniens de la serie haut-tatrique dans la Tatra Polonaise [Corals from the Urgonian Limestones of the Polish Tatra Mountains]. Annales de la Societe Geologique de Pologne 36(4):519-542 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69200: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.02.2007, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Clausastrea aff. saltensis Alloiteau 1960 stony coral
listed as Clausastraea aff. saltensis
Clausastrea cf. alloiteaui Morycowa 1964 stony coral
listed as Clausastraea cf. alloiteaui
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Eugyridae
"Felixigyra sp." = Eugyra (Felixigyra) Prever 1909 stony coral
Felixigyra duncani Prever 1909 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Amphiastreidae
Amphiastrea sp. Etallon 1859 stony coral
Amphiastrea basaltiformis Etallon 1859 stony coral
subspecies tatrensis
 Scleractinia - Cyathophoridae
"Pentacoenia pulchella" = Cyathophora pulchella
"Pentacoenia pulchella" = Cyathophora pulchella d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
"Trigerastraea" sp. Alloiteau 1951 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinacididae
Actinacis remesi Felix 1903 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Diplocoenia sp. Fromentel 1857 stony coral