Nasilow Greensand Horizon 1: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Poland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Cerithium mazureki n. sp.
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
? Aporrhais luganicus
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Dimyidae
Atreta nilssoni (Hagenow 1842)
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
? Pseudolimea granulata
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Lyropecten (Aequipecten) pulchellus (Nilsson 1827)
2 specimens
recombined as Dhondtichlamys pulchellus
Mimachlamys denticulata (Hagenow 1842)
1 specimen
Mimachlamys cretosa denticulata
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Flemingostreidae
Agerostrea lunata
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesiculare (Lamarck 1806)
50 specimens
recombined as Pycnodonta vesicularis
Hyotissa semiplana (Sowerby 1825)
6 specimens
Gryphaeostrea canaliculata (Sowerby 1813)
60 specimens
original and current combination Chama canaliculata
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Monopleuridae
Gyropleura inequirostrata
1 specimen
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Mosasaurus cf. hoffmanni (Mantell 1829)
Machalski et al. 2003
original and current combination Mosasaurus hoffmannii
IGPUWAR−1, IGPUWAR−2 and IGPUWAR−3 (3 teeth) - reworked Maastrichtian material
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 Ammonoid zone: Belemnella kazimiroviensis
Age range of interval:70.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Greensand
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Horizon 1?; Topmost Belemnella kazimiroviensis
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic,phosphatic,green lithified sandstone
Lithology description: 30cm phosphate-bearing glauconitic sandstone, highly fossiliferous
Environment:peritidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast,replaced with calcite,replaced with phosphate
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:28445
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Apel, P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2003-02-13 23:22:14 Last modified:2023-01-29 16:51:28
Access level:the public Released:2003-02-13 23:22:14
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:

37605 M. Machalski, J. W. M. Jagt, R. W. Dortangs, E. W. A. Mulder, and A. RadwaƄski. 2003. Campanian and Maastrichtian mosasaurid reptiles from central Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48(3):397-408 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Uhen]