Ciszyca Gorna, Middle Vistula Valley-opoka: Late/Upper Campanian, Poland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Cerithium binodosum
21 specimens
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Aporrhais granulosa
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Eucyclidae
Calliomphalus boimstrofensis
21 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana producta
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesiculare (Lamarck 1806)
10 specimens
recombined as Pycnodonta vesicularis
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Propeamussium (Parvamussium) inversum (Nilsson 1827)
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Limopsidae
Limopsis rhomboidalis
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Poromyida - Cuspidariidae
Cuspidaria caudata
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya (Procardia) decussata (Mantell 1822)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia santonensis
8 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Poland
Coordinates: 51.1° North, 21.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.5° North, 20.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
*Period:Late/Upper Cretaceous
*International age/stage:Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian
Key time interval:Late/Upper Campanian Zone: Didymoceras donezianum (Kg3)
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Opoka
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: JA: Donezanium zone is late Campanian according to Ward and Orr 1997
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,yellow lithified cherty/siliceous marl
Lithology description: yellowish-gray to gray siliceous marl, moderately hard, highly fossiliferous
Environment:peritidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:28086
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Apel
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2003-01-23 02:25:38 Last modified:2007-03-01 23:57:01
Access level:database members Released:2003-01-23 02:25:38
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

7642. G. I. Abdel-Gawad. 1986. Maastrichtian non-cephalopod mollusks: Scaphopoda, Gastropoda and Bivalvia of the Middle Vistula Valley, central Poland. Acta Geologica Polonica 36(1-3):69-224 [W. Kiessling/M. Apel/M. Apel]