Karsy (Jurassic of Poland)

Where: Korytnica, Poland (50.9° N, 21.7° E: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 28.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Mt. Lysa Formation (Holy Cross Mountains Group), Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone

• Pure limestones (primarily oolites) grading into marlstones, locally even into soft marls; limestones range from micritic through various biocalcarites to shell hash and/or pure ostreid coquinas

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collection methods: Echinoids only; Samples obtained in Karsy, Poland

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 157217: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Shaun Mahmood on 09.06.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Rhabdocidaridae
Rhabdocidaris orbignyana
Rhabdocidaris orbignyana Agassiz 1840 pencil urchin
 Calycina - Phymosomatidae
Phymosoma douviellei
 Calycina -
Trochotiara kongieli
Trochotiara kongieli Radwanska 1999 sea urchin
 Salenioida - Acrosaleniidae
Acrosalenia angularis
 Euechinoidea - Hemicidaridae
Gymnocidaris agassizi, Hemicidaris intermedia
Hemicidaris intermedia Fleming 1828 sea urchin
 Irregularia - Clypeidae
Pygurus blumenbachi
 Holectypoida - Holectypidae
Holectypus corallinus
 Irregularia - Pygasteridae
Pygaster morrisi, Pygaster tenuis
Pygaster morrisi sea urchin
Pygaster tenuis sea urchin
 Stomopneustoida - Stomechinidae
Polycyphus distinctus, Stomechinus gyratus