Wapnica Quarry, Dzikowiec, exposure 3, Main Limestone (Devonian of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.6° N, 16.6° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 30.5° S, 9.9° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Palmatolepis expansa conodont zone, Main Limestone Member (Wapnica Formation), Late/Upper Famennian (365.2 - 358.9 Ma)

• PJW: Given as "Main Limestone" but that name is used for many other formations. It used to be called "Hauptkalk", which means (wait for it...) "Main Chalk" or "Main Limestone" and thus certainly has been used elsewhere, too. Although Berkowski (2002) was uncommitted, other works make this the first member of the Wapnica Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified shale

• dark−grey organodetrital limestone (packstone) alternating with black marly shale

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: B. Berkowski. 2002. Famennian Rugosa and Heterocorallia from southern Poland. Palaeontologia Polonica 61:1-87 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 134804: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.10.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp.
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
Clisiophyllum sp.
Clisiophyllum sp. Dana 1846 horn coral
 Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae
Scruttonia kunthi, Scruttonia sudetica
Scruttonia kunthi Frech 1885 horn coral
Scruttonia sudetica Berkowski 2002 horn coral
 Stauriida - Kyphophyllidae
Tabulophyllum "sp. A"
Tabulophyllum "sp. A" Fenton and Fenton 1924 horn coral
 Stauriida - Laccophyllidae
Nalivkinella sp.
Nalivkinella sp. Soshkina 1939 horn coral
Foraminifera
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
Quasiendothyra sp.