Unit 6 (Basal Clastics), Kopieniec Fm, Tatra Mts, Poland (Jurassic to of Poland)

Where: Poland (49.3° N, 20.0° E: paleocoordinates 29.4° N, 25.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kopieniec Formation, Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)

• sample from basal clastics at base of formation (which seems to be an informal member of the formation); unit 6 is approximately 3 m thick

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone

• claystones

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: collection at ZPAL - Institute of Paleobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw

Primary reference: J. Blaszyk and A. Gazdzicki. 1983. Lower Lias ostracodes of the Tatra Mts (West Carpathians). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 27(1-4):129-136 [A. Miller/K. Layou/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 33325: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 25.07.2003

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Taxonomic list

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Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Cytherellidae
Cytherella flacherensis, Cytherella inaequata
Cytherella flacherensis ostracod
1 specimen = 1 carapace
Cytherella inaequata ostracod
1 specimen = 1 carapace
 Podocopida - Healdiidae
? Ogmoconchella scanica, ? Ogmoconchella carpathica n. sp., Ogmoconchella aspinata, Pseudohealdia truncata
? Ogmoconchella scanica ostracod
left valves only
? Ogmoconchella carpathica n. sp. ostracod
1 specimen = 1 carapace
Ogmoconchella aspinata ostracod
1 specimen = 1 carapace
Pseudohealdia truncata ostracod
1 specimen = 1 carapace