Erratic block from Orłowo: Pridoli, Poland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Pseudorthocerida - Spyroceratidae
Spyroceras damesi (Krause 1877)
3 specimens
ZPAL N/742, 751, 753; reconstruction drawings based on these specimens are referred to as "Eridites (?) sp." in Dzik (1984)
see common names

Geography
Country:Poland
Coordinates: 57.0° North, 19.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:3.6° North, 41.1° West (Wright 2013)
Geographic resolution:hand sample
Time
Period: Silurian Epoch: Pridoli
10 m.y. bin: Silurian 2
Key time interval: Pridoli
Age range of interval: 422.7 - 419.62 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Beyrichienkalk
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: see comments on geography
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: ZPAL = Institute of Paleobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw
Metadata
Also known as:Orlowo; Beyrichia Limestone, Beyrichienkalk; Gotland
Database number:89485
Authorizer:B. Kröger Enterer:T. Liebrecht
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-05-25 08:17:18 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2009-05-25 08:17:18
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

30004. J. Dzik and G. N. Kiselev. 1995. The Baltic nautiloids Cyrtoceras ellipticum Lossen 1860, C. priscum Eichwald 1861, and Orthoceras damesi Krause 1877. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 69(1/2):61-71 [B. Kröger/T. Liebrecht]