Where: Opole, Poland (50.6° N, 18.0° E: paleocoordinates 40.8° N, 16.5° E)
When: Middle Turonian to Middle Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• The teeth of P. mammillaris and two teeth of Cretoxyrhinidae were collected in the uppermost I. perplexus zone of the Marly limestones unit.
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified marl
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: R. Niedźwiedzki and M. Kalina. 2003. Late Cretaceous sharks in the Opole Silesia region (SW Poland). Geologia Sudetica 35(1-76):13-24 [M. Clapham/M. Gagucas/M. Gagucas]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 231881: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Melanie Gagucas on 26.09.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Ptychodus mammillaris Agassiz 1835 elasmobranch |