Swarzow 4: Tithonian, Poland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
Placogyra hykeli Eliasova 1973
recombined as Psammogyra hykeli
Ironella giseldonensis Krasnov and Starostina 1970
recombined as Starostinia giseldonensis
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Thamnasteria concinna (Goldfuss 1826)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Haplaraeidae
Meandraraea gresslyi Etallon 1864
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Dermosmilia sp. Koby 1884
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Microsolena agariciformis Etallon 1859
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Isastrea bernensis Etallon 1864
Clausastrea sp. d'Orbigny 1850
Thecosmilia dichotoma Koby 1884
Complexastrea burgundiae (de Blainville 1830)
Complexastrea dabroviensis n. sp. Morycowa 2012
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Eugyridae
Myriophyllia rastellina (Michelin 1843)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Heliocoenia humberti Etallon 1858
Pseudocoenia radisensis (d'Orbigny 1850)
recombined as Adelocoenia radisensis
Stylina tubulifera (Phillips 1829)
Enallhelia tubulosa (Becker 1875)
Stylosmilia octonaria Roniewicz 1976
see common names

Geography
Country:Poland
Coordinates: 50.2° North, 21.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.0° North, 27.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Tithonian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 6
Key time interval:Tithonian
Age range of interval:149.20000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Swarzow Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 770-640 m
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: coral-algal limestones; corals construct small but dense patches, constituting, perhaps, fragments of larger biostructures such as biostromes or bioherms
Environment:perireef or subreef
Geology comments: carbonate platform of the N margin of the Tethys Ocean (Peri-Tethys)
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:core,peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:algae (green and red), sponges, bryozoans, brachiopods, echinoderms reported to be present, but not listed
Metadata
Database number:133384
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2012-09-11 19:46:34 Last modified:2012-09-11 04:46:34
Access level:the public Released:2012-09-11 19:46:34
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

42953. E. Morycowa. 2012. Corals from the Tithonian carbonate complex in the Dabrowa Tarnowska-Szczucin area (Polish Carpathian Foreland). Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 82:1-38 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]