Quadersandstein, upper Turonian, Jicin, Czechia (Cretaceous of Czech Republic)

Where: Czech Republic (50.4° N, 15.3° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 14.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Quadersandstein formation, Sandstein complex, Oberturon Xc

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite

Primary reference: J. Soukup. 1938. Der erste fund eines fossilen seesternes in den Quadersandsteinen des Oberturons bei Jicin. Vierteljahrschrift für Geologie und Erdkunde der Sudetenländer 11:23-27 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 31184: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 18.04.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna cretacea Schlotheim 1813 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonte vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
Rhynchostreon suborbiculatum Lamarck 1801 oyster
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima canalifera Goldfuss 1836 file clam
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Inoceramus inconstans" = Cremnoceramus rotundatus, Inoceramus lamarcki
"Inoceramus inconstans" = Cremnoceramus rotundatus Fiege 1930 clam
Inoceramus lamarcki Parkinson 1819 clam
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
"Panopea regularis" = Panopea (Panopea) regularis
"Panopea regularis" = Panopea (Panopea) regularis Ortmann 1900 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
 Cardiida - Glossidae
Asteroidea
 Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Astropecten scupini Andert 1934 sea star