Belchatow B (Miocene to of Poland)

Where: Poland (51.4° N, 19.4° E: paleocoordinates 51.7° N, 18.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: MN 5 to MN 5 (16.0 - 12.8 Ma)

• material collected from three horizons in the brown-coal mine, unit B represents mammal zones MN 5/6 [JA: B entered in local bed field]

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coal and shelly/skeletal carbonate

• brown coal mine containing several layers of limnic carbonate sediments intercalated between coal seams

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: authors say that there are 30 sp. of land snails present

Primary reference: E. Stworzewicz and A. Szynkiewicz. 1989. Miocenskie slimaki ladowe we wschodniej czesci odkrywki KWB Belchatow [Miocene land snails from eastern part of Belchatow Brown Coal delf.]. Kwartalink Geologiczny 32(3-4):655-662 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31040: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 07.04.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
"freshwater snails"
 Architaenioglossa - Aciculidae
Renea pretiosa, "Acicula limbata" = Acme limbata
Renea pretiosa Andreae 1904 snail
"Acicula limbata" = Acme limbata Reuss 1861 snail
 Heterostropha - Carychiidae
"Carychium eumicron" = Carychium (Carychiella) eumicron Bourguignat 1857 snail
 Stylommatophora - Acanthinulidae
Acanthinula "sp. 1" Beck 1847 slug
Acanthinula "sp. 2" Beck 1847 slug
 Stylommatophora - Strobilopsidae
Strobilops "sp. 1" Pilsbry 1893 slug
Strobilops "sp. 2" Pilsbry 1893 slug
 Stylommatophora - Vertiginidae
Vertigo angulifera Boettger 1884 slug
Vertigo callosa Reuss 1849 slug
Negulus suturalis suturalis Boettger 1889 slug
 Stylommatophora - Gastrocoptidae
 Stylommatophora - Azecidae
Azeca sp. Fleming 1828 slug
 Stylommatophora - Argnidae
Argna oppoliensis Andreae 1902 slug
 Stylommatophora - Vitrinidae
Vitrinidae indet. Fitzinger 1833 slug
 Stylommatophora - Zonitidae
Zonitidae indet. Mörch 1864 true glass snail
 Stylommatophora - Clausiliidae
Clausiliidae indet. Gray 1855 slug
4 species
 Stylommatophora - Endodontidae
Endodontidae indet. Pilsbry 1895 slug
 Stylommatophora - Helicidae
Helicidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 slug
 Stylommatophora - Oleacinidae
Oleacinidae indet. Adams and Adams 1850 slug
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Gliridae
Bransatoglis sp.2 Hugueney 1967 dormouse
2m3, 1P4, 1M1, 1M2
Microdyromys koenigswaldi2 de Bruijn 1966 dormouse
1M1, 1M2
"Glis sp." = Myoxus (Glis)2 Brisson 1762 dormouse
1M2
Glirudinus sp.2 de Bruijn 1966 dormouse
1M1
Glirudinus cf. minutus2 Wu 1993 dormouse
1m1, 1M1
Glirulus lissiensis2 Hugueney and Mein 1965 Japanese dormouse
1m1, 1m2, 1M3
Glirulus werenfelsi2 Engesser 1972 Japanese dormouse
1m1, 2M1, 1M2, minimum 2 individuals
 Rodentia -
Neocometes similis1 Fahlbusch 1966 mouse
1m2, 2m3, 1M1, 1M2, 1M3, at least 3 individuals present
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Soricidae indet.4 Fischer 1814 shrew
i1 broken, proximal part only
Dinosorex cf. zapfei4 Engesser 1975 shrew
2I1, 2i1, 1A1, 1m1, 2m2, 1m3 and lots of fragments, at least 3 indivicuals
cf. Miosorex sp.4 Kretzoi 1959 shrew
I1 (broken, only apex and part of the talon preserved)
 Theriamorpha - Plesiosoricidae
Plesiosorex germanicus3 Seemann 1938 placental
1M3, 2m1, 1m2, 1m3