Gnaszyn Section B, sample Gns14A: Middle Bathonian, Poland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
cf. Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758
Kaim and Sztajner 2012 3 specimens
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Laevidentaliidae
cf. Laevidentalium sp. (Cossmann 1888)
Kaim and Sztajner 2012 1 specimen
original and current combination Dentalium (Laevidentalium)
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramidae indet. Giebel 1852
Kaim and Sztajner 2012 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pectinidae indet. Wilkes 1810
Kaim and Sztajner 2012 2 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytomidae indet. Ichikawa 1958
Kaim and Sztajner 2012 16 specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Astartidae indet. d'Orbigny 1844
Kaim and Sztajner 2012 196 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbulidae indet. Lamarck 1818
Kaim and Sztajner 2012 12 specimens
cf. Varicorbula sp. Grant and Gale 1931
Kaim and Sztajner 2012 1 specimen
spelled with current rank as Corbula (Varicorbula)
Bivalvia - Cardiida
Veneroida indet. Gray 1854
Kaim and Sztajner 2012 3 specimens
spelled with current rank as Veneroidei
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Myophorella sp. Bayle 1878
Kaim and Sztajner 2012 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculanidae indet. Adams and Adams 1858
Kaim and Sztajner 2012 32 specimens
Gastropoda - Eucyclidae
Eucycloscala sp. Cossmann 1895
6 specimens
Gastropoda - Cryptaulacidae
Cryptaulax sp.
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Iravadiidae
Bralitzia sp. Gründel 1998
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Poland
Coordinates: 50.8° North, 19.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.1° North, 26.1° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Bathonian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 4
Key time interval:Middle Bathonian
Age range of interval:168.20000 - 165.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:Gnaszyn B Local bed:Gns14A
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:black poorly lithified claystone
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface
Geology comments: deep-water and soft-bottom environments
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: The samples (approx. 5kg each) were taken from each lithologically distinct horizon of the succession. They were washed with hot water and washing powder on a sieve (mesh size 0.375 mm) and fossils were picked from residues under the microscope
Metadata
Database number:141293
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:T. Schossleitner
Modifier:M. Manojlovic Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-03-23 06:43:33 Last modified:2016-07-13 16:26:38
Access level:the public Released:2013-03-23 06:43:33
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
45930. A. Kaim. 2012. Faunal dynamics of Gastropods in the Bathoninan (Middle Jurrasic) ore-bearing clays at Gnaszyn, Krakow-Silesia Homocline, Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 62(3):367-380 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner]

Secondary references:

45956 A. Kaim and P. Sztajner. 2012. Faunal dynamics of bivalves and scaphopods in the Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) ore-bearing clays at Gnaszyn, Kraków-Silesia Homocline, Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 62(3):381-395 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner]