Trench ZS-2, 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: lower to upper P. rhomboidea zone; Local Brachiopod Zones & Intervals (this paper): ?Cyrtiorina depressa interval; lower part of the Grained and Micritic Limestone unit

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, peloidal, gray grainstone

• short-sea level rise; deep water palmatolepid-polygnathid biofacies
• thin-bedded, gray bio-pelsparite

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 70230: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 20.03.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Spiriferida - Cyrtospiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Ulbospiriferidae
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productidae
Mesoplica sp.
incomplete pedicle valve
Leioproductus cf. pauperculus Cooper and Dutro 1982
28 specimens in trench ZS-1 and ZS-2
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Polygnathidae
 Ozarkodinida - Palmatolepidae