Wierzbica, track layer (Jurassic of Poland)

Where: Wojewodztwo mazowieckie, Poland (51.3° N, 21.1° E: paleocoordinates 43.1° N, 27.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wierzbica Oolite and Platy Limestones Formation, Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; gray marl and graded, glauconitic, shelly/skeletal, muddy grainstone

• "upper tidal flat". Tracks were subsequently buried by a tidal channel.
• Pterosaur footprints at top of a "20 cm thick, laterally discontinuous grey/brownish laminated marl layer", and preserved as casts on the bottom of a "layer of organodetritic marls with shell debris, quartz grains, carbonate rock fragments, glauconite and floral debris...The term 'marl' can be assigned only to the uppermost part of the layer, while for the most part, particularly in the lower section of the layer, this rock should be assigned to grainstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collected by Roniewicz in 2004

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: G. Pieńkowski and G. Niedźwiedzki. 2005. Pterosaur tracks from the early Kimmeridgian intertidal deposits of Wierzbica, Poland. Geological Quarterly 49(3):339-346 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 94107: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 09.02.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Pterosauria - Pteraichnidae
Pteraichnus sp.
Pteraichnus sp. Stokes 1957 pterosaur
MP-Z KG/1, three manus and two pes prints. Two manus prints not collected