Trench Z.orb-12, Debnik Anticline, Cracow Region (Devonian of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.2° N, 19.7° E: paleocoordinates 16.9° S, 27.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Famennian (376.1 - 370.6 Ma)

• Standard Conodont Zone: may be upper Palmatolepis crepida zone; Local Brachiopod Zones & Intervals (this paper): Cavastinurostrum longilinguis interval; Grained and Micritic Limestone unit

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, gray limestone

• deposited under stagnant, poorly oxygenated bottom conditions well below wave base; probable maximum of Famennian transgression
• medium-bedded, gray limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: A. Balinski. 1995. Brachiopods and conodont biostratigraphy of the Famennian from the Debnik anticline, southern Poland. Palaeontologia Polonica 54:3-88 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 70211: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 20.03.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodontophorida
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Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Palmatolepidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Eobrachythyris palkowae
340 specimens in total. abundant in Z.pal-1 and Loc. PG; few in trenches Z.orb-5, -6, -8 and -12
 Spiriferida - Cyrtospiriferidae
Cyrtospirifer sp. Nalivkin 1924
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Athyris tau
total of 14 specimens in Z.orb -12, -13 and Zarnowczany Dol ravine
Strophomenata
 Productida - Araksalosiidae
Lingulata
 Lingulida -
Lingulipora sp. Girty 1898