Back-reef, Grobie, Holy Cross Mts., Poland (Miocene of Poland)

Also known as Reef 3227

Where: Poland (50.5° N, 20.8° E: paleocoordinates 50.8° N, 19.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sublithothamnium Level Member (Pinczow Formation), Badenian (13.7 - 12.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified floatstone and lithified packstone

• Floatstones proximally, packstones distally. Up to 35% quartz grains in matrix.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, peel or thin section,

• Focusing on decapods but other organisms also indicated

Primary reference: M. Gorka. 2002. The Lower Badenian (Middle Miocene) coral patch reef at Grobie (southern slopes of the Holy Cross Mountains, Central Poland), its origin, development and demise. Acta Geologica Polonica 52(4):521-534 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 32516: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 08.07.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Except for corals only fossils found by the author are included in list
Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Celleporidae
Cellepora sp. Linnaeus 1767
End reef builders
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Aequipecten scabrella" = Chlamys scabrellus, "Chlamys cf. multistriata" = Talochlamys multistriata
"Aequipecten scabrella" = Chlamys scabrellus Lamarck 1819 scallop
Chlamys (Aequipecten) scabrella
"Chlamys cf. multistriata" = Talochlamys multistriata Poli 1795 scallop
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Acanthocardia paucicostata Sowerby 1834 cockle
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Carcinidae
Liocarcinus sp. Stimpson 1871 crab
 Decapoda - Panopeidae
Panopeus wronai Muller 1984 crab
 Decapoda - Xanthidae
Chlorodiella mediterranea Lorenthey 1929 stone crab
 Decapoda - Dairidae
Daira speciosa Reuss 1871 crab
 Decapoda - Dynomenidae
Dynomene emiliae Muller 1978 crab
 Decapoda - Diogenidae
Petrochirus sp. Stimpson 1858 hermit crab
 Decapoda - Calcinidae
Dardanus hungaricus Lörenthey and Beurlen 1929 hermit crab
 Decapoda - Porcellanidae
Petrolisthes haydni Müller 1984 decapod
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites collegniana Michelin 1842 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Tarbellastraea reussiana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Textulariidae indet. Ehrenberg 1838