Ryjewo, Lower Vistula Valley Region (Pleistocene of Poland)

Where: Poland (53.8° N, 19.0° E: paleocoordinates 53.8° N, 19.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gniew Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• formed at the beginning of Krastudy Interglacial

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified claystone

• formed during transgression of the sea
• varved clays

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: A. Makowska. 1986. Morza plejstocenskie w Polsce; osady, wiek i paleogeografia [Pleistocene seas in Poland; sediments, age and paleogeography]. Prace Instytutu Geologicznego 120:74 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63977: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 29.08.2006

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