Kostomloty quarry - sample 66 [Kowala Fm]: Early/Lower Famennian, Poland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Ostracoda - Platycopida - Cavellinidae
Sulcella (Postsulcella) kostomlotyensis
Ostracoda - Platycopida - Coelonellidae
Coelonella sp. Stewart 1936
Ostracoda - Palaeocopida - Cryptophyllidae
Cryptophyllus sp. Levinson 1951
Ostracoda - Leperditellocopida - Graviidae
Selebratina sp.
see common names

Geography
Country:Poland State/province:Kostomloty County:Gory
Coordinates: 50.9° North, 20.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:16.0° South, 27.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Late/Upper Devonian
Stage:Famennian 10 m.y. bin:Devonian 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Famennian
Age range of interval:372.20000 - 368.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kowala
Local section:Kostomloty Local bed:66
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: AGE: early Famennian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: from sample 66, immediately above the Frasnian-Famennian boundary.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal lithified packstone
Secondary lithology:shelly/skeletal lithified grainstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: LITHOLOGY: Packstones and grainstones enriched in ooids, peloids,clumps, and intraclasts. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies description.
Environment:lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Semi-restricted back-shoal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:recrystallized
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Not stated in text. REPOSITORY: Not stated, but possibly housed at the State Geological Institute in Warsaw (PIG).
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for ostracods; other taxa mentioned, but not specified. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with apparently modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:162219
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2014-09-20 23:06:49 Last modified:2014-09-20 23:06:49
Access level:the public Released:2014-09-20 23:06:49
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

52849. J.-G. Casier, X. Devleeschouwer, F. Lethiers, A. Preat, and G. Racki. 2000. Ostracods and sedimentology of the Frasnian-Famennian boundary beds in the Kostomloty section (Holy Cross Mountains, Poland). Bulletin de l'Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique 70:53-74 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]