Sulejow (Jurassic of Poland)

Where: Sulejow, Poland (51.3° N, 19.9° E: paleocoordinates 43.1° N, 26.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Holy Cross Mountains Group, Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)

• limited info in text, location in large quarry

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

• poorly exposed in quarry

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collection methods: Echinoids only; Samples obtained in a Sulejow, Poland quarry

Primary reference: U. Radwanska. 1999. Lower Kimmeridgian echinoids of Poland. Acta Geologica Polonica 49(4):287-364 [M. Hopkins/S. Mahmood]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157209: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Shaun Mahmood on 09.06.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Rhabdocidaridae
Rhabdocidaris orbignyana Agassiz 1840 pencil urchin
 Salenioida - Acrosaleniidae
 Calycina -
Trochotiara suleiovense n. sp. Radwanska 1999 sea urchin
 Euechinoidea - Hemicidaridae
Hemicidaris intermedia Fleming 1828 sea urchin
 Irregularia - Clypeidae
Pygurus costatus sea urchin
 Irregularia - Pygasteridae
Pygaster morrisi sea urchin
 Stomopneustoida - Stomechinidae