Where: Poland (50.5° N, 19.5° E: paleocoordinates 41.8° N, 26.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• the ten samples (5kg each) were taken from the upper part of the section and represent most probably the Mid Bathonian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; poorly lithified, black claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collection methods: sieve,

• Rock samples collected over the period 1995-2002; the material is housed at the Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS) in Warsaw (abbreviated ZPAL) and the Museum of the Earth PAS in Warsaw (abbreviated MZ).

Primary reference: A. Kaim. 2004. The evolution of conch ontogeny in Mesozoic open sea gastropods. Palaeontologia Polonica 62:1-183 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63077: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 04.08.2006, edited by Loic Villier

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