Kazimierz Section (Town Querry), lower Part (A): Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Poland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium (Dentalium) multicostatum
4 specimens
Scaphopoda
Dentalium (Dentalium) sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Scaphopoda
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Architectonica (Solariaxis) granulatocostata
2 specimens
Gastropoda
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
? Avellana inversestriata
2 specimens
? Avellana sp. d'Orbigny 1842
4 specimens
Avellana(?) sp.2
Gastropoda - Epitoniidae
Confusiscala decorata
1 specimen
Gastropoda
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Cerithium tectiforme
1 specimen
Gastropoda
Cerithium binodosum
2 specimens
Gastropoda
Cerithium decheni
7 specimens
Gastropoda
Cerithium nerei
17 specimens
Gastropoda
Cerithium polystropha
2 specimens
Gastropoda
Cerithium griepenkerli
1 specimen
Gastropoda
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
1 specimen
Gastropoda
Turritella (Turritella) hagenoviana
24 specimens
Gastropoda
Turritella (Haustator) plana
47 specimens
spelled with current rank as Haustator
Gastropoda
Laxispira cochleiformis
3 specimens
Gastropoda
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Lemintina nodosa
6 specimens
Gastropoda
Gastropoda - Ranellidae
Charonia (Sassia) tuberculosa
3 specimens
spelled with current rank as Sassia
Charonia multicostata
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Cassidaria truncata n. sp.
2 specimens
synonym of Galeodea
Gastropoda - Strombidae
Tibia (Tibia) laevis
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Arrhoges (Latiala) pelecyphora
7 specimens
Aporrhais pyriformis
68 specimens
Gastropoda
Aporrhais granulosa
3 specimens
Gastropoda
? Aporrhais luganicus
6 specimens
Gastropoda
? Aporrhais sp. da Costa 1778
10 specimens
Gastropoda
Kaunhowenia carinifera
4 specimens
Cultrigera arachnoides
2 specimens
Cultrigera turriformis
2 specimens
? Cultrigera nagorzanyensis
1 specimen
Drepanocheilus substenoptera
9 specimens
Gastropoda - Colombellinidae
Columbellaria cf. granulata
1 specimen
spelled with current rank as Colombellina (Columbellaria)
Columbellaria laevicostata
1 specimen
spelled with current rank as Colombellina (Columbellaria)
Columbellaria tuberculosa (Binkhorst 1861)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Scaphella sp. Swainson 1832
1 specimen
Scaphella sp.2
Volutilithes kneri
8 specimens
Volutospina kasimiri
4 specimens
spelled with current rank as Athleta (Volutospina)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Bellifusus septemcostatus
4 specimens
Euthriofusus nereidiformis
1 specimen
Graphidula procera
1 specimen
Graphidula aff. plicata
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Clavatulidae
Turricula sp. Schumacher 1817
1 specimen
Turricula sp.1
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Cancellaria nitidula
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Gyrodes hoernesi
1 specimen
? Natica cretacea Goldfuss 1841
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
? Margarites laevis
2 specimens
Gastropoda
Atira laevis
1 specimen
original and current combination Margarites (Atira)
Gastropoda
Gastropoda - Trochidae
Gibbula (Colliculus) reticulata
5 specimens
Gastropoda - Nododelphinulidae
Trochacanthus tuberculatocinctus
2 specimens
Gastropoda
Trochacanthus nilssoni
10 specimens
Gastropoda
Trochacanthus tricarinatus
10 specimens
Trochacanthus tricarinatus tricarinatus
Trochacanthus tricarinatus
1 specimen
Trochacanthus tricarinatus monilifer
Gastropoda - Eucyclidae
Calliomphalus (Calliomphalus) dichotomus
3 specimens
Gastropoda
Calliomphalus (Calliomphalus) plachetkoi
3 specimens
Gastropoda
Calliomphalus (Calliomphalus) inaequecostatus
13 specimens
Gastropoda
Calliomphalus (Planolateralus) quadricinctus
4 specimens
Gastropoda
Calliomphalus (Planolateralus) nasilowensis n. sp.
3 specimens
Gastropoda
Calliomphalus (Planolateralus) amatus
1 specimen
Gastropoda
Calliomphalus (Planolateralus) fruchti
18 specimens
Calliomphalus (Planolateralus) aff. fruchti
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Pleurotomariidae
Leptomaria subgigantea
4 specimens
Gastropoda
Conotomaria linearis
10 specimens
Gastropoda
Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
Emarginula costatostriata
4 specimens
Gastropoda
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Cylichna jaba
6 specimens
Gastropoda - Patellida - Lottiidae
Acmaea striatissima
1 specimen
Gastropoda
Gastropoda - Vasidae
Tudicla (Tudicla) carinata
4 specimens
Tudicla (Tudicla) sp. Röding 1798
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Sareptidae
Nucula (Nucula) truncata Gabb 1864
7 specimens
synonym of Portlandia arctica
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana (Nuculana) producta
30 specimens
Nuculana (Nuculana) siliqua
6 specimens
Nuculana (Nuculana) puschi
4 specimens
Nuculana (Nuculana) foersteri
8 specimens
Nuculana (Nuculana) aff. carinata
1 specimen
? Nuculana (Nuculana) brevirostris
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula (Nucula) ascendens
11 specimens
Nucula (Nucula) tenera
2 specimens
Nucula (Nucula) sp. Lamarck 1799
2 specimens
Nucula (Nucula) ovata Phillips 1841
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus (Modiolus) elongatus
2 specimens
Modiolus (Modiolus) siliquus
1 specimen
Septifer (Septifer) scalaris
8 specimens
Inoperna flagellifera (Forbes 1846)
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Acutostrea incurva (Nilsson 1827)
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesiculare (Lamarck 1806)
40 specimens
recombined as Pycnodonta vesicularis
Hyotissa semiplana (Sowerby 1825)
1 specimen
Gryphaeostrea canaliculata (Sowerby 1813)
5 specimens
original and current combination Chama canaliculata
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna (Plasiopinna) kasimirensis n. sp.
2 specimens
Pinna (Pinna) cretacea (Schlotheim 1813)
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Pseudoptera coerulescens (Nilsson 1827)
2 specimens
Gervillia (Gervillia) solenoidea Defrance 1820
80 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pteriidae
Phelopteria pectinoidea
4 specimens
Phelopteria cincta
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Limatula kunradensis
11 specimens
Limatula ovata Wood 1839
5 specimens
Limea geinitzi
20 specimens
Plagiostoma cretacea
3 specimens
Plagiostoma hoperi Mantell 1822
50 specimens
Ctenoides dunkeri
27 specimens
? Pseudolimea granulata
9 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma (Hypoxytoma) danica
75 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis granulosa
21 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Dimyidae
Atreta nilssoni (Hagenow 1842)
7 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium membranaceum (Nilsson 1827)
19 specimens
recombined as Pecten (Syncyclonema) membranaceus
Syncyclonema gamsensis Dhondt 1971
2 specimens
Syncyclonema haeggi Dhondt 1971
12 specimens
Syncyclonema nilsoni (Goldfuss 1835)
25 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Propeamussium (Parvamussium) inversum (Nilsson 1827)
8 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Lyropecten (Aequipecten) pulchellus (Nilsson 1827)
8 specimens
recombined as Dhondtichlamys pulchellus
Merklinia variabilis (Hagenow 1842)
13 specimens
Mimachlamys cretosa (Defrance 1822)
18 specimens
M. c. cretosa (8 sp.), M. c. denticulata (10 sp.)
Lyropecten (Aequipecten) campaniensis (Orbigny 1847)
1 specimen
Lyropecten (Aequipecten) acuteplicatus (Alth 1850)
abundant category
more than 600 valves from K. and Janowiec and the majority from Nasilow and Bochotnica
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) virgatus (Nilsson 1827)
4 specimens
recombined as Camptonectes virgatus
Chlamys (Lyriochlamys) septemplicata
30 specimens
original and current combination Lyriochlamys
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Spondylus truncatus
25 specimens
Spondylus serratus
1 specimen
Spondylus dutempleanus Orbigny 1847
64 specimens
synonym of Spondylus fimbriatus
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Neitheidae
Neithea sexcostata (Woodward 1833)
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Tenuipteria argentaea
6 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Limopsidae
Limopsis (Limopsis) radiata Meyer 1885
30 specimens
Limopsis (Limopsis) rhomboidalis
20 specimens
Limopsis (Limopsis) sacheri
50 specimens
Limopsis (Limopsis) aff. helenae
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea (Cucullaea) leopoliensis
19 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Barbatia (Barbatia) geinitzi (Reuss 1844)
3 specimens
Barbatia (Barbatia) tenuistriata
10 specimens
Barbatia (Barbatia) forchammeri
3 specimens
Arca (Eonavicula) propinqua
5 specimens
original and current combination Eonavicula
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina (Lucina) subnumismalis Orbigny 1850
5 specimens
Lucina (Lucina) laminosa (Reuss 1846)
3 specimens
synonym of Lucina subnumismalis
Mutiella coarctata
27 specimens
Bivalvia - Poromyida - Cuspidariidae
Cuspidaria caudata
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Poromyida - Poromyidae
Liopistha (? Psilomya) sp. (Meek 1876)
16 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Goniomya mailleana
1 specimen
Pholadomya kasimiri
13 specimens
Pholadomya salzbergensis
16 specimens
Pholadomya (Procardia) decussata (Mantell 1822)
11 specimens
Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) esmarki (Nilsson 1827)
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Pandorida - Laternulidae
Cercomya harpa
21 specimens
Bivalvia - Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia carinifera
8 specimens
Bivalvia - Thraciida - Periplomatidae
Periploma sp. Schumacher 1816
5 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Teredinidae
Teredinidae indet. Rafinesque 1815
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Monopleuridae
Gyropleura inequirostrata
85 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Legumen fragilis
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Tenea cf. ovalis
51 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Trapezidae
Trapezium (Trapezium) trapezoidale
31 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Nemocardium (Nemocardium) fenestratum
21 specimens
Granocardium (Granocardium) alutacium
9 specimens
synonym of Trachycardium
Granocardium (Granocardium) aff. postulosum
1 specimen
synonym of Trachycardium
Granocardium (Criocardium) productum (Sowerby 1832)
11 specimens
Bivalvia - Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panopea mandibula
20 specimens
Bivalvia - Solenida - Pharidae
? Cultellus kulczynskii
25 specimens
Leptosolen concentristriatus
7 specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia santonensis
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Opis (Opis) ventricosa
12 specimens
Astarte (Astarte) similis Munster 1840
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Poland
Coordinates: 51.3° North, 22.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.7° North, 18.6° East
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 kasimiroviensis
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:opoka
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: the author marked A, B, C are the lower, middle and the upper horizons of the marly opoka exposed at Kazimierz.
A horizon
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,yellow poorly lithified cherty/siliceous marl
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: yellowish-gray to gray siliceous marl, moderately hard, highly fossiliferous. Sandy marly opoka, slightly glauconitic, in the uppermost part of the Maastrichtian
Environment:peritidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite,original calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
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 mullusks
Metadata
Database number:27822
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Apel, W. Kiessling
Modifier:M. Manojlovic Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2003-01-14 05:34:39 Last modified:2016-07-25 15:07:13
Access level:the public Released:2003-01-14 05:34:39
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]