Owadów‐Brzezinki quarry (Unit I) (Jurassic of Poland)

Where: Poland (51.4° N, 20.1° E: paleocoordinates 43.1° N, 26.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sławno Member (Kcynia Formation), Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• "uppermost lower Tithonian"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• The sediment of the oldest unit probably formed in the environment of a vast and shallow sea bay or a lagoon, which remained open to a deeper basin.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Geological Museum of the University of Lodz (GMUL)

Primary reference: D. Tyborowski. 2016. A new ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from the Late Jurassic of Owadów-Brzezinki Quarry, Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61(4):791-803 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 216435: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.12.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Loricata -
Thalattosuchia indet.
Thalattosuchia indet. Fraas 1901 marine crocodile
 Ichthyosauria -
Ichthyosauria indet.
Ichthyosauria indet. de Blainville 1835 ichthyosaur
 Ichthyosauria - Ophthalmosauridae
Cryopterygius kielanae n. gen. n. sp.
Cryopterygius kielanae n. gen. n. sp. Tyborowski 2016 ichthyosaur
GMUL 3579-81
 Testudines -
Owadowia borsukbialynickae n. gen. n. sp.
Owadowia borsukbialynickae n. gen. n. sp. Szczygielski et al. 2017 turtle
ZPAL V/O‐B/1959 - holotype
Osteichthyes
 Halecomorphi -
Halecomorphi indet.
Halecomorphi indet. Cope 1872 ray-finned fish
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Virgatopavlovia sp., Zaraiskites sp.
Virgatopavlovia sp. Cope 1978 ammonite
Zaraiskites sp. Semenov 1898 ammonite