Mirow: Oxfordian, Poland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Pliosauridae
Pliosaurus cf. andrewsi Tarlo 1960
1 specimen
Museum in Czestochowa No. 1,293
see common names

Geography
Country:Poland State/province:Śląskie County:Myszkowski
Coordinates: 50.6° North, 19.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.4° North, 26.3° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Oxfordian
Age range of interval:161.50000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Abundance in sediment:rare
Fragmentation:frequent
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Collection size:1 specimens
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:106467
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:H. Street
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-03-18 08:23:56 Last modified:2011-03-17 16:23:56
Access level:the public Released:2011-03-18 08:23:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
35546.ETE T. Maryanska. 1972. Aberrant pliosaurs from the Oxfordian of Poland. Prace Museum Ziemi 20:201-206 [M. Carrano/H. Street]

Secondary references:

36273ETE H. F. Ketchum and R. B. J. Benson. 2011. The cranial anatomy and taxonomy of Peloneustes philarchus (Sauropterygia, Pliosauridae) from the Peterborough Member (Callovian, Middle Jurassic) of the United Kingdom. Palaeontology 54(3):639-665 [M. Carrano/H. Street]