Sobkow (Jurassic of Poland)

Where: Sobkow, Poland (50.8° N, 20.3° E: paleocoordinates 42.6° N, 26.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Holy Cross Mountains Group, Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)

• Small exposres in the cropland and in local trenches and pits on the slopes of Mt. Kosciolek

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• Pure limestones (primarily oolites) grading into marlstones, locally even into soft marls; limestones range from micritic through various biocalcarites to shell hash and/or pure ostreid coquinas

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collection methods: Echinoids only; Samples obtained in a large quarry in Sobkow , Poland

Primary reference: U. Radwanska. 1999. Lower Kimmeridgian echinoids of Poland. Acta Geologica Polonica 49(4):287-364 [M. Hopkins/S. Mahmood]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157214: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Shaun Mahmood on 09.06.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Echinoidea
 Irregularia - Clypeidae
Pygurus jurensis
Pygurus jurensis sea urchin
 Irregularia - Pygasteridae
Pygaster morrisi
Pygaster morrisi sea urchin
 Euechinoidea - Hemicidaridae
Hemicidaris intermedia
Hemicidaris intermedia Fleming 1828 sea urchin
 Salenioida - Acrosaleniidae
Acrosalenia angularis
 Arbacioida - Arbaciidae
Glypticus sp., Acropeltis aequitubercuata
Glypticus sp. sea urchin
 Cidaroida - Rhabdocidaridae
Rhabdocidaris noblilis