Erratic block from Żary, Lower Silesia (Ordovician of Poland)

Also known as type locality of Cyrtoceras ellipticum Lossen; Zary; Öland, Oland

Where: Lubusz, Poland (56.7° N, 16.7° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° S, 7.3° W)

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Folkeslunda Limestone Formation, Lasnamagi (463.5 - 460.9 Ma)

• see comments on geography

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; gray, argillaceous limestone

• see comments on geography

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MfN

Primary reference: J. Dzik and G. N. Kiselev. 1995. The Baltic nautiloids Cyrtoceras ellipticum Lossen 1860, C. priscum Eichwald 1861, and Orthoceras damesi Krause 1877. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 69(1/2):61-71 [B. Kröger/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89470: authorized by Björn Kröger, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 23.05.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ellesmerocerida - Phthanoncoceratidae
"Cyrtoceras ellipticum n. sp." = Phthanoncoceras ellipticum
"Cyrtoceras ellipticum n. sp." = Phthanoncoceras ellipticum Lossen 1860
MB C.873 (type)
 Orthocerida - Baltoceratidae
Cochlioceras sp.
Cochlioceras sp. Eichwald 1860
in the same block as the type of Cyrtoceras ellipticum
Trilobita
 Asaphida - Asaphidae
Asaphus sp.
Asaphus sp. Brongniart 1822 trilobite
in the same block as the type of Cyrtoceras ellipticum
 Trinucleida - Raphiophoridae
? Lonchodomas sp.
? Lonchodomas sp. Angelin 1854 trilobite
in the same block as the type of Cyrtoceras ellipticum