Bochotnica, Middle Vistula Valley-hardground (Cretaceous of Poland)

Where: Poland (51.3° N, 22.0° E: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 18.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Belemnella kazimiroviensis (Mg2) zone, hardground Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, burrowed, hardground, gray carbonate

• One meter light gray of hardground with corrugat, eneven and brecciated upper surface, which is densely burrowed

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: G. I. Abdel-Gawad. 1986. Maastrichtian non-cephalopod mollusks: Scaphopoda, Gastropoda and Bivalvia of the Middle Vistula Valley, central Poland. Acta Geologica Polonica 36(1-3):69-224 [W. Kiessling/M. Apel/M. Apel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28079: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Marcus Apel on 23.01.2003, edited by Uta Merkel

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Oculinidae
Madrepora sp. Linne 1758 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Seguenzioidea - Eucyclidae
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
 Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Cylichna faba Kner 1869 snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Limopsidae
 Pandorida - Laternulidae
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Linearia (Liothyris) gorbatschae" = Linearis
"Linearia (Liothyris) gorbatschae" = Linearis tellin clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte similis Munster 1840 clam