Tarnowitz: Ladinian, Poland
collected by Mikolajczak

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Placodontia - Placodontidae
Placodus gigas Agassiz 1833
Rieppel 1995 1 specimen
BGR X-06153 (isolated tooth plate)
Reptilia - Placodontia - Cyamodontidae
Cyamodus tarnowitzensis n. sp. Gürich 1884
1 specimen
lost holotype specimen, first reported by Gürich (1884)
Reptilia
Pistosaurus longaevus Meyer 1839
Surmik et al. 2017
see common names

Geography
Country:Poland
Coordinates: 50.4° North, 18.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:19.3° North, 22.5° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Middle Triassic
Stage:Ladinian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 2
Key time interval:Ladinian
Age range of interval:242.00000 - 237.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Muschelkalk
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Muschelkalk Subgroup
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Mikolajczak
Metadata
Also known as:Tarnowskie Góry
Database number:138137
Authorizer:R. Benson, A. Dunhill Enterer:R. Benson, B. Allen
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2013-01-05 04:45:12 Last modified:2021-09-30 09:22:20
Access level:the public Released:2013-01-05 04:45:12
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

78228. G. Gürich. 1884. Ueber einige Saurier des obershlesischen Muschelkalkes [On some saurians from the Upper Silesian Muschelkalk]. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 36:125-144 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

44175 O. Rieppel. 1995. The genus Placodus: systematics, morphology, paleobiogeography, and paleobiology. Fieldiana: Geology, new series 31:1-44 [R. Benson/R. Benson]
35076 O. Rieppel and H. Hagdorn. 1999. A skull of Cyamodus kuhnschnyderi Nosotti & Pinna 1993, from the Muschelkalk of Wassonne (Alsace, France). Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 73(3/4):377-383 [M. Carrano/H. Street/J. Alroy]
66920 D. Surmik, B. M. Rothschild, M. Dulski and K. Janiszewska. 2017. Two types of bone necrosis in the Middle Triassic Pistosaurus longaevus bones: the results of integrated studies. Royal Society Open Science 4(7):170204 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]