Mt. Giewont, High-Tatra: Early/Lower Aptian, Poland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Diplocoenia sp. Fromentel 1857
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Actinacididae
Actinacis remesi Felix 1903
3 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Eugyridae
Felixigyra sp. Prever 1909
2 specimens
spelled with current rank as Eugyra (Felixigyra)
Felixigyra duncani Prever 1909
2 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Clausastrea cf. alloiteaui Morycowa 1964
1 specimen
listed as Clausastraea cf. alloiteaui
Clausastrea aff. saltensis Alloiteau 1960
1 specimen
listed as Clausastraea aff. saltensis
Montlivaltia cf. incerta
2 specimens
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Trigerastrea sp. (Alloiteau 1951)
1 specimen
    = "Trigerastraea" sp. Alloiteau 1951
Kiessling 2008
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Cyathophoridae
Pentacoenia pulchella d'Orbigny 1850
1 specimen
recombined as Cyathophora pulchella
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Amphiastreidae
Amphiastrea sp. Etallon 1859
1 specimen
Amphiastrea basaltiformis Etallon 1859
1 specimen
subspecies tatrensis
see common names

Geography
Country:Poland
Coordinates: 49.3° North, 19.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.1° North, 28.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Aptian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 3
Key time interval:Early/Lower Aptian
Age range of interval:125.45000 - 122.46000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Wysoka Turnia Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: ?Late Barremian-Early Aptian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: reef breccia
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:69200
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel, W. Kiessling
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-02-21 04:52:47 Last modified:2007-02-21 07:02:11
Access level:the public Released:2007-02-21 04:52:47
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

19948. E. Morycowa and J. Lefeld. 1966. Les madreporaires des calcaires urgoniens de la serie haut-tatrique dans la Tatra Polonaise [Corals from the Urgonian Limestones of the Polish Tatra Mountains]. Annales de la Societe Geologique de Pologne 36(4):519-542 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

26431 W. Kiessling. 2008. New opinions on coral taxonomy. [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]
19949 J. P. Masse and A. Uchman. 1997. New biostratigraphic data on the Early Cretaceous platform carbonates of the Tatra Mountains, Western Carpathians, Poland. Cretaceous Research 18:713-729 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]