Tarnowitz (Triassic of Poland)

Also known as Tarnowskie Góry

Where: Poland (50.4° N, 18.8° E: paleocoordinates 19.3° N, 22.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Muschelkalk Group, Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• Upper Muschelkalk Subgroup

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Mikolajczak

Primary reference: G. Gürich. 1884. Ueber einige Saurier des obershlesischen Muschelkalkes [On some saurians from the Upper Silesian Muschelkalk]. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 36:125-144 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138137: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 05.01.2013, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Placodontia - Cyamodontidae
Cyamodus tarnowitzensis n. sp. Gürich 1884 placodont
lost holotype specimen, first reported by Gürich (1884)
 Placodontia - Placodontidae
Placodus gigas1 Agassiz 1833 placodont
BGR X-06153 (isolated tooth plate)
 Sauropterygia -
Pistosaurus longaevus2 Meyer 1839 diapsid