Gnaszyn Section A, sample Gns35 (Jurassic of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.8° N, 19.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 37.1° N, 35.2° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; poorly lithified, black claystone

• deep-water and soft-bottom environments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: sieve,

• The samples (approx. 5kg each) were taken from each lithologically distinct horizon of the succession. They were washed with hot water and washing powder on a sieve (mesh size 0.375 mm) and fossils were picked from residues under the microscope

Primary reference: A. Kaim. 2012. Faunal dynamics of Gastropods in the Bathoninan (Middle Jurrasic) ore-bearing clays at Gnaszyn, Krakow-Silesia Homocline, Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 62(3):367-380 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 141268: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 23.03.2013

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

• Numbers of specimen of gastropodes, bivalves, scaphopodes and shark teeth are explicitely stated, number of echinoderms is roughly based on proportional plots; total number of echinoderms within this collection is 62 specimen.
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
 Heterostropha - Bullinidae
 Trochoidea - Skeneidae
Eudaronia pusilla GrĂ¼ndel 2000 snail
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Parvitomella sp. GrĂ¼ndel 2000 top snail
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculanidae indet.2 Adams and Adams 1858 pointed nut clam
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytomidae indet.2 Ichikawa 1958 scallop
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbulidae indet.2 Lamarck 1818 clam
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Bradfordia sp. Buckman 1910 ammonite
Holothuroidea
 Apodida - Achistridae
Achistrum sp.1 Etheridge 1881 sea cucumber
 Apodida - Chiridotidae
Theelia sp.1 Schlumberger 1890 sea cucumber
Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.1 Leske 1778 sea urchin
Ophiuroidea
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Ophiuroidea indet.1 Gray 1840 brittle star
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.1 Miller 1821 Sea lily