Sulejow, Middle Vistula Valley, Poland (Cretaceous of Poland)

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

• Yellowish-gray to gray siliceous marl. moderately hard, highly fossiliferous

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
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
"Charonia (Sassia) tuberculosa" = Sassia
"Charonia (Sassia) tuberculosa" = Sassia triton shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Gyrodes hoernesi moon snail