Nasilow Hardground: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Poland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Volutispina kasimiri
5 specimens
Syncylonema haeggi
2 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Oculinidae
Madrepora sp. Linne 1758
Stolarski and Vertino 2007 1 specimen
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Sareptidae
Nucula truncata Gabb 1864
1 specimen
synonym of Portlandia arctica
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana puschi
1 specimen
Nuculana foersteri
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus elongatus
7 specimens
Modiolus radiatus
5 specimens
corrected as Modiolus
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonte (Phygaea) vesiculare (Lamarck 1806)
10 specimens
recombined as Pycnodonta vesicularis
Hyotissa semiplana (Sowerby 1825)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma cretacea
1 specimen
Plagiostoma hoperi Mantell 1822
5 specimens
? Pseudolimea granulata
5 specimens
Limatula kunradensis
7 specimens
Limatula ovata
1 specimen
original and current combination Limatula
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Spondylus serratus
1 specimen
Spondylus dutempleanus Orbigny 1847
6 specimens
synonym of Spondylus fimbriatus
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Merklinia variabilis (Hagenow 1842)
5 specimens
Lyropecten (Aequipecten) acuteplicatus (Alth 1850)
abundant category
more than 600 seperate valves from Kazimierz, Janowiec and the majority from Nasilow, Bochotnica
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Neitheidae
Neithea sexcostata (Woodward 1833)
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Tenuipteria argentea (Conrad 1858)
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Limopsidae
Limopsis rhomboidalis
3 specimens
Limopsis sacheri
32 specimens
Limopsis radiata Meyer 1885
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Pseudogrammatodon lornae
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea leopoliensis
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Barbatia tenuistriata
7 specimens
Barbatia geinitzi (Reuss 1844)
8 specimens
Arca (Eonavicula) granulatoradiata
1 specimen
original and current combination Eonavicula
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte similis Munster 1840
1 specimen
Opis ventricosa
18 specimens
Bivalvia - Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panopea mandibula
6 specimens
Bivalvia - Poromyida - Cuspidariidae
Cuspidaria caudata
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Poromyida - Poromyidae
Liopistha aequivalvis
7 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Goniomya designata
2 specimens
Goniomya mailleana
3 specimens
Pholadomya kasimiri
6 specimens
Bivalvia - Pandorida - Laternulidae
Cercomya harpa
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Granocardium alutacium
7 specimens
synonym of Trachycardium
Granocardium (Criocardium) productum (Sowerby 1832)
1 specimen
Nemocardium fenestratum
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Tenea cf. ovalis
6 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Trapezidae
Trapezium trapezoidale
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Legumen fragilis
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Monopleuridae
Gyropleura inequirostrata
5 specimens
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Mutiella coarctata
10 specimens
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium multicostatum
1 specimen
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Cylichna faba (Kner 1869)
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
? Avellana sp. d'Orbigny 1842
1 specimen
Avellana (?) sp. 2
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Tornatellaea kongieli n. sp.
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Tibia laevis
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Aporrhais pyriformis
130 specimens
? Aporrhais nadjini
2 specimens
? Aporrhais sp. da Costa 1778
3 specimens
Aporrhais (?) sp. indet.
Drepanocheilus substenoptera
1 specimen
Perissoptera emarginulata
4 specimens
Arrhoges (Latiala) pelecyphora
8 specimens
Kaunhowenia carinifera
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Scaphella sp. Swainson 1832
1 specimen
Scaphella sp. 2
Volutilithes kneri
1 specimen
Rostellana aequecostata
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Euthriofusus nereidiformis
1 specimen
Bellifusus septemcostatus
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Xenophoridae
Xenophora onusta (Nilsson 1827)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Ranellidae
Charonia multicostata
2 specimens
Charonia (Sassia) tuberculosa
1 specimen
spelled with current rank as Sassia
Biplex cretaceus n. sp.
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Lemintina nodosa
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Naticidae
? Natica exaltata
3 specimens
? Natica cretacea Goldfuss 1841
10 specimens
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella (Haustator) plana
8 specimens
spelled with current rank as Haustator
Laxispira cochleiformis
3 specimens
Turritella hagenoviana
10 specimens
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Cerithium mazureki n. sp.
1 specimen
Bittium (Semibittium) triptychum
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Nododelphinulidae
Trochacanthus tricarinatus
5 specimens
Trochacanthus tricarinatus tricarinatus
Trochacanthus nilssoni
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
? Margarites leavis
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Chilodontaidae
Chilodonta rudis
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Eucyclidae
Calliomphalus (Planolateralus) quadricinctus
1 specimen
Calliomphalus (Planolateralus) nasilowensis n. sp.
5 specimens
Calliomphalus (Planolateralus) amatus
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Vasidae
Tudicla carinata
3 specimens
Tudicla althi
1 specimen
Tudicla globosa n. sp.
1 specimen
Tudicla sp. Röding 1798
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Poland
Coordinates: 51.3° North, 22.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.8° North, 18.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
*Period:Late/Upper Cretaceous
*International age/stage:Late/Upper Maastrichtian
Key time interval:Late/Upper Maastrichtian Zone: Belemnella kazimiroviensis
Age range of interval:70.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Opoka
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Bed 2
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:burrows,hardground,gray lithified "carbonate"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: One meter of light gray hardground with corrugat, eneven and brecciated upper surface, which is densely burrowed
Environment:peritidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Only non-cephalopod mollusks
Metadata
Database number:27819
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Apel, U. Merkel
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2003-01-14 02:17:33 Last modified:2017-07-31 15:50:38
Access level:the public Released:2003-01-14 02:17:33
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

7642. G. I. Abdel-Gawad. 1986. Maastrichtian non-cephalopod mollusks: Scaphopoda, Gastropoda and Bivalvia of the Middle Vistula Valley, central Poland. Acta Geologica Polonica 36(1-3):69-224 [W. Kiessling/M. Apel/M. Apel]

Secondary references:

28765 J. Stolarski and A. Vertino. 2007. First Mesozoic record of the scleractinian Madrepora from the Maastrichtian siliceous limestones of Poland. Facies 53:67-78 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]