Lipie Slaskie clay-pit, Lisowice (Triassic to of Poland)

Where: Slaskie, Poland (50.7° N, 18.6° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 16.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zbaszynek Beds/Wielichowo Beds Formation, Norian to Norian (228.0 - 201.3 Ma)

• "The strata exposed in the Lipie Slaskie clay-pit are correlatable with the upper part of the subsurface Zbaszynek Beds and lower part of the Wielichowo Beds (Late Triassic: latest Norian-early Rhaetian). These formations apparently continue into the Exter Formation of the Upper Keuper in the east German part of the Germanic Basin" (Niedzwiedzki et al. 2011)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lenticular, concretionary, pyritic, gray, green, muddy, calcareous claystone

• "a lenticular body of grey mudstone and claystone...[bones are] mostly covered with calcareous and pyritic crust or preserved within limestone concretions." Described later as "greenish-grey."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, surface (float), mechanical,

• ZPAL: Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences

Primary reference: J. Dzik, T. Sulej, and G. Niedzwiedzki. 2008. A dicynodont-theropod association in the latest Triassic of Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 53(4):733-738 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 85500: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 02.01.2009, edited by Abree Murch, Mark Uhen, Maciej Ruciński and Richard Butler

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Trileites
  -
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
cf. Hirmeriella muensteri Schenk 1867
"similar to..."
Peltaspermopsida
 Peltaspermales - Peltaspermaceae
Horstisporites
  -
Angiospermae
  -
 Coniferales - Palissyaceae
cf. Stachyotaxus septentrionalis Agardh 1886
"similar to..."
Branchiopoda
 Diplostraca - Euestheriidae
cf. Euestheria brodieana clam shrimp
"similar to..."
Bivalvia
 Unionida -
Tihkia silesiaca n. sp.4 Skawina and Dzik 2011 clam
Reptilia
 Diapsida -
? Diapsida indet.1 Osborn 1903 diapsid
isolated wing bones
 Theropoda -
cf. Coelophysoidea indet. Holtz 1994 coelophysoid
ZPAL V33/41, MB/1
 Pseudosuchia -
Poposauroidea indet.3 Nopcsa 1923 archosaur
small
 Crocodylia -
Nihilichnus nihilicus2 Mikulas et al. 2006 crocodilian
  -
Smok wawelski n. gen. n. sp.3
Smok wawelski n. gen. n. sp.3 Niedzwiedzki et al. 2012 archosaur
ZPAL V33/15 (holotype), ZPAL V.33/16-56, 97-102, 295-314, 434, 507, remains of a single individual. ZPAL V.33/434, ZPAL V.33/49, premaxilla and pubis collected from different stratigraphic level
Osteichthyes
 Dicynodontia -
Dicynodontia indet. Owen 1859 dicynodont
ZPAL V33/75-77, 84-85, 96; similar to Ischigualastia
 Dicynodontia - Stahleckeriidae
Lisowicia bojani n. gen. n. sp.5
Lisowicia bojani n. gen. n. sp.5 Sulej and Niedźwiedzki 2019 dicynodont
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Plagiosauridae
Plagiosauridae indet. Abel 1919 tetrapod
ZPAL V33/192-194
 Temnospondyli - Cyclotosauridae
Cyclotosaurinae indet. Shishkin 1964 tetrapod
ZPAL V33/1, 4-7, 11, 13
Osteichthyes
 Dipnoi -
Dipnoi indet. lungfish
teeth
 Palaeonisciformes -
Palaeonisciformes indet.3 Hay 1902
"ganoid skull elements and scales"
Chondrichthyes
 Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodontidae indet. Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch
fin spines