Roztocze Hills, serpulid-microbialite reefs, Lublin Upland (Miocene of Poland)

Also known as Reef 676

Where: Poland (50.8° N, 22.2° E: paleocoordinates 51.1° N, 21.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)

• Lower Sarmatian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

• brackish environment
• The buildups are composed mainly of calcite precipitates. Skeletal organisms represented by serpulid tubes and bryozoans are of minor importance and comprise merely a few percent of the rock volume. They are overgrown with micritic peloidal microbialites that are the major reef component.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: A. Pisera. 1995. The role of skeletal and non-skeletal components in the Sarmatian (Miocene) reefs of Poland. Publications du Service Geologique du Luxembourg 29:81-86 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 70683: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.04.2007, edited by Mihaela Krause

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Nubeculariidae
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Schizoporellidae
Schizoporella sp. Hincks 1877
 Cheilostomata - Cryptosulidae
Cryptosula sp. Canu and Bassler 1925
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Tubuliporidae
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Mytilida - Crenellidae
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Crassostrea gryphoides Schlotheim 1813 oyster
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Cardiida - Semelidae
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae
Mohrensternia sp. Stoliczka 1868 snail
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Gibbula sp. Risso 1826 top snail
Calliostoma sp. Swainson 1840 top snail