Wạwał clay pit (upper "Valanginian") (Cretaceous of Poland)

Also known as Wawal

Where: Poland (51.5° N, 20.1° E: paleocoordinates 43.1° N, 26.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• Species of the genera Neocomites, Polyptychites, Hoplites, Saynoceras, as well as the species Bachianites neocomiensis d'Orbigny and Leopoldia provincialis Sayn

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, concretionary, sideritic claystone

• Plastic clays and gray shales with siderite concretions

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by H. Pugaczewska, J. Drobiecka in 1970

Primary reference: H. Pugaczewska. 1975. Neocomian oysters from central Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 20(1):47-72 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 213516: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.09.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaeostrea arduennensis d'Orbigny 1846 oyster
Gryphaeostrea cf. lateralis Nilsson 1827 oyster
Pycnodonte sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1835 oyster
Ceratostreon minos Coquand 1869 oyster
Aetostreon latissimum Lamarck 1801 oyster
Aetostreon neocomiensis d'Orbigny 1851 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Lopha cf. cotteaui Coquand 1869 oyster
Lopha cf. eos Coquand 1869 oyster