Where: Poland (51.0° N, 21.8° E: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 18.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Neancycloceras phaleratum (Kg1) zone, Opoka Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, gray, yellow, cherty/siliceous marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,
Primary reference: G. I. Abdel-Gawad. 1986. Maastrichtian non-cephalopod mollusks: Scaphopoda, Gastropoda and Bivalvia of the Middle Vistula Valley, central Poland. Acta Geologica Polonica 36(1-3):69-224 [W. Kiessling/M. Apel/M. Apel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 28450: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Marcus Apel on 14.02.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Charonia (Sassia) tuberculosa" = Sassia
"Charonia (Sassia) tuberculosa" = Sassia triton shell | |
Gyrodes hoernesi moon snail |