Where: Poland (51.3° N, 22.0° E: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 18.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Belemnella kazimiroviensis zone, Opoka Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Bed 2
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, burrowed, hardground, gray carbonate
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 27819: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Marcus Apel on 14.01.2003, edited by Uta Merkel
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Anthozoa | |
Madrepora sp. Linne 1758 stony coral | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium multicostatum tusk shell
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Barbatia geinitzi Reuss 1844 clam
"Arca (Eonavicula) granulatoradiata" = Eonavicula clam | |
Tenuipteria argentea Conrad 1858 clam | |
"Pycnodonte (Phygaea) vesiculare" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis, Hyotissa semiplana
"Pycnodonte (Phygaea) vesiculare" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
Hyotissa semiplana Sowerby 1825 oyster | |
Merklinia variabilis, Lyropecten (Aequipecten) acuteplicatus, Spondylus serratus, "Spondylus dutempleanus" = Spondylus fimbriatus
Merklinia variabilis Hagenow 1842 scallop
Lyropecten (Aequipecten) acuteplicatus Alth 1850 scallop more than 600 seperate valves from Kazimierz, Janowiec and the majority from Nasilow, Bochotnica
Spondylus serratus scallop
"Spondylus dutempleanus" = Spondylus fimbriatus Goldfuss 1835 scallop | |
Neithea sexcostata Woodward 1833 scallop | |
"Limatula kunradensis" = Limatula, "Limatula ovata" = Limatula, Plagiostoma cretacea, Plagiostoma hoperi, ? Pseudolimea granulata
"Limatula kunradensis" = Limatula file clam
"Limatula ovata" = Limatula file clam
Plagiostoma cretacea file clam
Plagiostoma hoperi Mantell 1822 file clam
? Pseudolimea granulata file clam | |
Astarte similis Munster 1840 clam
Opis ventricosa clam | |
Mutiella coarctata clam | |
Granocardium alutacium cockle
Granocardium (Criocardium) productum Sowerby 1832 cockle
Nemocardium fenestratum cockle | |
Tenea cf. ovalis clam | |
Legumen fragilis venus clam | |
Gyropleura inequirostrata rudist | |
Panopea mandibula clam | |
Cuspidaria caudata clam | |
Cercomya harpa clam | |
"Nucula truncata" = Portlandia arctica
"Nucula truncata" = Portlandia arctica Gray 1824 clam | |
Nuculana puschi pointed nut clam
Nuculana foersteri pointed nut clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Chilodonta rudis snail | |
? Margarites leavis snail | |
Trochacanthus nilssoni snail | |
Cylichna faba Kner 1869 snail | |
Tornatellaea kongieli n. sp.
Tornatellaea kongieli n. sp. snail | |
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Tudicla carinata snail
Tudicla althi snail
Tudicla globosa n. sp. snail
Tudicla sp. Röding 1798 snail | |
Cerithium mazureki n. sp. cerith snail
Bittium (Semibittium) triptychum cerith snail | |
"Turritella (Haustator) plana" = Haustator turret shell
Laxispira cochleiformis turret shell
Turritella hagenoviana turret shell | |
? Natica exaltata moon snail
? Natica cretacea Goldfuss 1841 moon snail | |
Lemintina nodosa worm shell | |
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Rostellana aequecostata volute
Volutilithes kneri volute | |
Tibia laevis true conch | |
Drepanocheilus substenoptera, Kaunhowenia carinifera, Arrhoges (Latiala) pelecyphora, Perissoptera emarginulata, Aporrhais pyriformis, ? Aporrhais nadjini, ? Aporrhais sp.
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Charonia multicostata triton
"Charonia (Sassia) tuberculosa" = Sassia triton shell
Biplex cretaceus n. sp. triton shell | |
Xenophora onusta Nilsson 1827 carrier shell |