Solec, Middle Vistula Valley, Poland (Cretaceous to of Poland)

Where: Poland (51.1° N, 21.8° E: paleocoordinates 42.0° N, 19.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Belemnella lanceolata (Md1) zone, Opoka Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, gray, yellow, cherty/siliceous marl

• Yellowish-gray to gray siliceous marl. moderately hard, highly fossiliferous

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 28447: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Marcus Apel on 13.02.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Seguenzioidea - Eucyclidae
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
 Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma hoperi Mantell 1822 file clam
 Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Propeamussium (Parvamussium) inversum Nilsson 1827 mud scallop
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillia solenoidea Defrance 1820 oyster
 Ostreida - Flemingostreidae
 Arcida - Arcidae
"Barbatia (Acar) hennigi" = Acar
"Barbatia (Acar) hennigi" = Acar miniature ark
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae