Trench Z.orb-8, Debnik Anticline, Cracow Region: Early/Lower Famennian, Poland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Conodonta
- Ozarkodinida
- Palmatolepidae
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Palmatolepis circularis
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3 elements | |||||||||
Conodonta
- Ozarkodinida
- Polygnathidae
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Polygnathus delenitor
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2 elements | |||||||||
Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Schizophoriidae
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Schizophoria shubarica
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Cyrtospiriferidae
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Cyrtospirifer cf. acutus
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2 specimens | |||||||||
specimens usually exfoliated | ||||||||||
Cyrtiopsis famenniana
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few category | |||||||||
29 specimens from trenches Z.orb-6 (most), -7 and 8 (both some) | ||||||||||
Dmitria gibbosa
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common category | |||||||||
35 specimens in trenches Z.orb-6, -7 and -8 | ||||||||||
Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Spiriferidae
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Eobrachythyris palkowae
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few category | |||||||||
340 specimens in total. abundant in Z.pal-1 and Loc. PG; few in trenches Z.orb-5, -6, -8 and -12 | ||||||||||
Rhynchonellata
- Rhynchonellida
- Trigonirhynchiidae
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Ptychomaletoechia sp.
Sartenaer 1961
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few category | |||||||||
total of 20 specimens from Z.orb-6 (abundant), -7 (few) and -8 (few) | ||||||||||
Rhynchonellata
- Rhynchonellida
- Pugnacidae
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Coeloterorhynchus sp.
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2 specimens | |||||||||
very fragmentary shells | ||||||||||
Rhynchonellata
- Athyridida
- Athyrididae
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Athyris aff. area
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common category | |||||||||
total of 56 specimens in trenches Z.orb-6, -7 and -8 | ||||||||||
Strophomenata
- Productida
- Sentosiidae
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Sentosia profunda
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1 specimen | |||||||||
one pedicle valve | ||||||||||
Strophomenata
- Orthotetida
- Areostrophiidae
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Eoschuchertella sp.
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common category | |||||||||
exfoliated fragments | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Poland |
Coordinates: | 50.2° North, 19.7° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 16.9° South, 27.7° East |
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
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
Local section: | Debnik | Local bed: | Z.orb-8 | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Standard Conodont Zone: may be upper Palmatolepis crepida zone; Local Brachiopod Zones & Intervals (this paper): Dmitria gibbosa interval; lowest part of Grained and Micritic Limestone unit |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal,gray lithified wackestone |
Lithology description: gray, medium-bedded bio-micrites with crinoids, echinoids, ostracods, scolecodonts, bryozoans, algae and conodonts. | |
Environment: | open shallow subtidal |
Glacial or sequence phase: | transgressive |
Geology comments: represents a relatively deep-water, palmatolepid-polygnathid biofacies; marks more favorable environmental conditions |
Taphonomy
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | poor |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some macrofossils,difficult macrofossils |
Collection methods: | bulk,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 70207 | ||
Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | T. Schossleitner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2007-03-20 05:32:33 | Last modified: | 2007-03-20 07:32:35 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-03-20 05:32:28 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
23475. | A. Balinski. 1995. Brachiopods and conodont biostratigraphy of the Famennian from the Debnik anticline, southern Poland. Palaeontologia Polonica 54:3-88 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner] |