Erratic block from the Vistula River, Bydgoszcz (Ordovician of Poland)

Also known as Platte Nr. 3; Öland, Oland

Where: Kuyavia-Pomerania, Poland (56.7° N, 16.7° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° S, 7.3° W)

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Folkeslunda Limestone Formation, Lasnamagi (463.5 - 460.9 Ma)

• see comments on geography

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; gray, argillaceous limestone

• " [...] grey, slightly marly cephalopod limestone [...] " (Dzik & Kiselev, 1995)

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H. Patrunky; reposited in the MfN

Primary reference: J. Dzik and G. N. Kiselev. 1995. The Baltic nautiloids Cyrtoceras ellipticum Lossen 1860, C. priscum Eichwald 1861, and Orthoceras damesi Krause 1877. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 69(1/2):61-71 [B. Kröger/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89471: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 23.05.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ellesmerocerida - Phthanoncoceratidae
Phthanoncoceras ellipticum
Phthanoncoceras ellipticum Lossen 1860
MB C.869, C.872 (juvenile specimen)
 Multiceratoidea - Clinoceratidae
Clinoceras sp.
Clinoceras sp. Mascke 1876
"longiconic species of Clinoceras"; no catalogue number given
 Oncocerida - Oonoceratidae
Oonoceras priscum
Oonoceras priscum Eichwald 1861
MB C.874
 Orthocerida - Baltoceratidae
Cochlioceras sp.
Cochlioceras sp. Eichwald 1860
no catalogue number given