Piotrawin, Middle Vistula Valley-opoka: Late/Upper Campanian, Poland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Nododelphinulidae
Trochacanthus monilifer
5 specimens
Trochacanthus tricarinatus monilifer
Gastropoda - Eucyclidae
Calliomphalus boimstrofensis
1 specimen
Calliomphalus granulatus
1 specimen
Calliomphalus rimosus granulatus
Calliomphalus inaequecostatus
11 specimens
Calliomphalus (Planolatralus) fruchti
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Vasidae
Tudicla carinata
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Epitoniidae
Confusiscala decorata
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Cerithium binodosum
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Colombellinidae
Columbellaria laevicostata n. sp.
1 specimen
spelled with current rank as Colombellina (Columbellaria)
Columbellaria tuberculosa (Binkhorst 1861)
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Aporrhais granulosa
1 specimen
Drepanocheilus substenoptera
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Clavatulidae
Turricula sp. Schumacher 1817
1 specimen
Turricula sp. 2
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Scaphella sp. Swainson 1832
1 specimen
Scaphella sp. 2
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Gyrodes hoernesi
2 specimens
? Natica cretacea Goldfuss 1841
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Architectonica (Solariaxis) granulatocostata
10 specimens
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Cylichna faba (Kner 1869)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Barbatia geinitzi (Reuss 1844)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Dimyidae
Atreta nilssoni (Hagenow 1842)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
? Pseudolimea granulata
3 specimens
Limatula kunradensis
9 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Propeamussium (Parvamussium) inversum (Nilsson 1827)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Mimachlamys cretosa (Defrance 1822)
5 specimens
Mimachlamys cretosa cretosa
Lyropecten (Aequipecten) wisniowskii
1 specimen
original and current combination Aequipecten
Lyropecten (Aequipecten) campaniensis (Orbigny 1847)
7 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Spondylus dutempleanus Orbigny 1847
6 specimens
synonym of Spondylus fimbriatus
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillia solenoidea Defrance 1820
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesiculare (Lamarck 1806)
35 specimens
recombined as Pycnodonta vesicularis
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Acutostrea lunata
3 specimens
Acutostrea incurva (Nilsson 1827)
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Poromyida - Cuspidariidae
Cuspidaria caudata
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya (Procardia) decussata (Mantell 1822)
13 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Nemocardium fenestratum
5 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana producta
35 specimens
Nuculana puschi
1 specimen
? Nuculana brevirostris
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Sareptidae
Nucula truncata Gabb 1864
2 specimens
synonym of Portlandia arctica
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Plioplatecarpinae indet. (Dollo 1884)
Machalski et al. 2003
"Plioplatecarpinae sp. A" - IGPUWAR−5 (fragmentary tooth crown)
    = Hainosaurus sp. Dollo 1885
Jagt et al. 2005
Prognathodon sp. Dollo 1889
Machalski et al. 2003
IGPUWAR−6 (tooth crown)
see common names

Geography
Country:Poland
Coordinates: 51.1° North, 21.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.5° North, 20.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
*Period:Late/Upper Cretaceous
*International age/stage:Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian
Key time interval:Late/Upper Campanian Ammonoid zone: Nostoceras pozaryskii
Age range of interval:83.50000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Opoka
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Age of this locality now confirmed to be upper Campanian according to MACHALSKI et al. (2003); Nostoceras pozaryskii (Kg4)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,yellow lithified argillaceous,cherty/siliceous "limestone"
Lithology description: yellowish-gray to gray siliceous marl, moderately hard, highly fossiliferous
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:28084
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Apel, P. Mannion, W. Kiessling
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2003-01-23 01:59:40 Last modified:2021-06-02 19:24:46
Access level:the public Released:2003-01-23 01:59:40
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:

38120 J. W. M. Jagt, J. Lindgren, M. Machalski and A. Radwankski. 2005. New records of the tylosaurine mosasaur Hainosaurus from the Campanian-Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of central Poland. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences — Geologie en Mijnbouw 84(3):303-306 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
37605 M. Machalski, J. W. M. Jagt, R. W. Dortangs, E. W. A. Mulder, and A. Radwański. 2003. Campanian and Maastrichtian mosasaurid reptiles from central Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48(3):397-408 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Uhen]