Where: Poland (50.8° N, 19.2° E: paleocoordinates 42.0° N, 26.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)
• The section exposed black clay which is attributed by J. Dzik (unpublished data) to the Zigzagiceras zigzag Zone of the Early Bathonian.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; poorly lithified, black claystone
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: original aragonite
Collection methods: sieve,
• The gastropod collection was collected in 1971 by J. Dzik and is housed at the Institute of Paleobiology PAS, Warsaw.
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 67615: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 28.11.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Cryptaulax quenstedti Walther 1951 snail |