Lower Kock Beds of Kock IG-1 section (Devonian of Poland)

Where: Poland (51.6° N, 22.5° E: paleocoordinates 18.1° S, 6.1° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Acastella elsana zone, Lower Kock Beds Formation, Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; gray, green claystone

• "The section ... represents a somewhat shallower zone [than Ciepielow and Barstow sections] in the marine basin at the Silurian-Devonian boundary...The Lower Kock Beds, bteween 845 and 820 m ... consist of grey greenish claystones laminated in places, with a relatively sparse fauna."

Collection methods: core

Primary reference: H. Tomczyk, M. Pajchlowa, and E. Tomczykowa. 1977. Poland. In A. Martinsson (ed.), The Silurian-Devonian boundary (IUGS Series A, No. 5) 65-83 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13884: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 30.04.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
 Pisocrinida - Pisocrinidae
? Pisocrinus sp.
? Pisocrinus sp. de Koninck 1858 Sea lily
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
"Protathyris infantile" = Pseudoprotathyris infantilis
"Protathyris infantile" = Pseudoprotathyris infantilis Kozlowski 1929
 Protorthida - Skenidiidae
Skenidioides lewisi
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Isorthis orbicularis
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Orthoceras sp.
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
Nuculites vaissierei
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Grammysia ? cingulata, Sedgwickia morini
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Pleurodapis sp.
Malacostraca
 Archaeostraca - Ceratiocarididae
Ceratiocaris sp.
Ceratiocaris sp. M'Coy 1849