Pinczow Limestone, rhodolith pavement (Miocene of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.5° N, 20.5° E: paleocoordinates 50.9° N, 19.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• Middle Miocene (Badenian)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• The densilty of sampling was higher where

•limestones with in-plance algal accumulations occur but lower in purely orgainodetrital limestones. Because of the poor expasure the samples were frequently taken from the weathering zone.

• composed of large, mainly sphaeroidal rhodoliths,the internal structure of which shows typically three growth stages: branching nucleus, laminar stage, and columnar stage.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: W. Studencki. 1988. Red algae from the Pinczow limestones (middle Miocene, Swietokrzyskie mountains, Poland). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 33(1):3-57 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138295: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 10.01.2013

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Taxonomic list

Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
"Lithophyllum mgarrense" = Lithophyllum nitorum Adey and Adey 1973
Lithophyllum vicetinum Mastrorilli 1973
Lithophyllum kamptneri Mastrorilli 1967
Lithophyllum minimum Mastrorilli 1967
Lithophyllum albanense Lemoine 1924
"Lithophyllum duplex" = Titanoderma duplex Pisera and Studencki 1989
Titanoderma nataliae Maslov 1956
Lithoporella sp. Foslie 1909
Leptolithophyllum maslovi Studencki 1988
Jania dniestrovica Maslov 1961
Jania ucrainica Maslov 1962
Corallina sp. Linnaeus 1758
 Sporolithales - Corallinophycidae
"Archaeolithothamnium keenani" = Sporolithon keenani
"Archaeolithothamnium keenani" = Sporolithon keenani Howe 1934
 Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
Melobesia sp. Lamoroux 1812
""Lithothamnium" cf. fruticulosum" = Lithothamnion
""Lithothamnium" "sp. 3"" = Lithothamnion Heydrich 1897
""Lithothamnium" "sp. 4"" = Lithothamnion Heydrich 1897
"Palaeothamnium archaeotypum" = Lithothamnion romosissimum Reuss 1847
Mesophyllum marosticae Mastrorilli 1973
Mesophyllum galettoi Mastrorilli 1967
Mesophyllum laffittei Lemoine 1939