Rogoźnik Quarry: Spathian, Poland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Nothosauria
Nothosauria indet. Baur 1889
Reptilia - Saurosphargidae
Hemilopas mentzeli Meyer 1847
WNoZ/s/7/68, tooth-bearing jaw fragment
see common names

Geography
Country:Poland State/province:Upper Silesia
Coordinates: 50.4° North, 19.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:17.9° North, 25.8° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Early/Lower Triassic
Stage:Olenekian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 1
Key time interval:Spathian
Age range of interval:248.90000 - 247.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Röt
Stratigraphy comments: "uppermost Röt sediments of Rogoźnik quarry ... (the latest Olenekian)" (Surmik, 2016)
"uppermost Röt (Krapkowice Pelitic Limestone Bed) or in the Dąbrówka Bioclastic Limestone Bed (lithostratigraphical scheme according to Kowal-Linka (2008), proposed
to Opole Region)" (Surmik, 2016)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: marl
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:195612
Authorizer:A. Dunhill Enterer:B. Allen
Modifier:B. Allen
Created:2018-08-14 12:31:12 Last modified:2018-08-14 12:54:37
Access level:the public Released:2018-08-14 12:31:12
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

66592. D. Surmik. 2016. Hemilopas mentzeli, an enigmatic marine reptile from the Middle Triassic of Poland revisited. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie-Abhandlungen 282(2):209-223 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]