Zawodzie, Bifurcatus Zone, Polish Jura: Middle Oxfordian, Poland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae - Spirosclerophorida - Discostromatidae
Hyalotragos pezizoides (Goldfuss 1833)
1 individual
Demospongiae - Spirosclerophorida - Platychoniidae
Bothrolemma osculifera
1 individual
Platychonia schlotheimi (Goldfuss 1833)
10 individuals
Hexactinellida - Lychniscosa - Cypelliidae
Cypellia rugosa (Goldfuss 1826)
1 individual
Hexactinellida - Hexactinosa
Hexactinosa indet. Schrammen 1903
3 individuals
Hexactinellida - Hexactinosa - Cribrospongiidae
Tremadictyon sp. Zittel 1877
1 individual
synonym of Cribrospongia
Hexactinellida - Lyssacinosa - Stauractinellidae
Stauractinella jurassica Zittel 1877
2 individuals
see common names

Geography
Country:Poland
Coordinates: 50.8° North, 19.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.6° North, 25.9° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Middle Oxfordian
Age range of interval:161.50000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Zawodzie
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Bifurcatus Zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: platy micritic limestones, well and evenly bedded
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: sponges only; ammonites reported to be present, but not listed
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 3437
Database number:60818
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-05-24 06:41:52 Last modified:2006-07-18 10:24:01
Access level:the public Released:2006-05-24 06:41:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

17503. J. Trammer. 1989. Middle to Upper Oxfordian sponges of the Polish Jura. Acta Geologica Polonica 39(1-4):49-91 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]