Montowskie Pastwiska, Poland (Paleocene of Poland)

Where: Poland (53.8° N, 18.8° E: paleocoordinates 47.9° N, 14.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: glauconitic sandstone

Collection methods: core

• List is given with number of specimens from one or more sample intervals within the core. To preserve abundance data, the list is entered as one list from the core; the number of the sample intervals where each taxa is found is listed in the comment field next to each individual taxa.

Primary reference: G. Jakubowski. 1988. A Paleocene fauna from a bore-hole at Montowskie Pastwiska near Gniew (Northern Poland). Prace Museum Ziemi 40:23-36 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3112: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 26.07.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
cf. Nuculana ovoides pointed nut clam
62 - originally entered as "Nuculana cf. ovoides"
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam
63, 64b, 67
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula montensis nut clam
64b
Nucula densistria nut clam
62, 64a
Nucula proava nut clam
62, 64a, 64b
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam
62, 63, 64a
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Lithophaga sp. Röding 1798 mussel
62
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonte sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1835 oyster
66, 69a
Gryphaeostrea canaliculata Sowerby 1813 oyster
61, 62, 64, 64a, 64b, 66, 66a, 67
 Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
cf. Propeamussium bisculpsum mud scallop
62 - originally entered as "Propeamussium cf. bisculpsum"
 Arcida - Limopsidae
Limopsis minuscula clam
63, 64a
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris corneti clam
64a - originally entered as "Gylcymeris corneti"
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
cf. Cucullaria reticularis clam
62, 64b - originally entered as "Cucullaria cf. reticularis"
 Arcida - Arcidae
Bathyarca sp. Kobelt 1891 clam
63, 64b
 Arcida - Noetiidae
Arcopsis limnopsis clam
62, 64a, 64b
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte trigonula clam
62, 63, 64a
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle
62
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Dosiniopsis sp. Conrad 1864 venus clam
"sp. juv." 63 - originally entered as "Dosiniopsis sp. juv."
Pitar sp.juv. Römer 1857 venus clam
64a
Gafrarium angelini venus clam
64a
 Cardiida - Glossidae
 Cardiida - Erycinidae
Erycina sp. Lamarck 1805 clam
64b
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula lefevrei clam
63, 64a, 64b
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Miltha montensis clam
62, 63, 64
Parvilucina sp. Dall 1901 clam
62, 64a
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium rugiferum von Koenen 1885 tusk shell
62, 64a, 64b
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
cf. Charonia antiqua triton
63 - originally entered as "Charonia cf. antiqua"
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Euspira detrita moon snail
64a
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella arsenei Briart and Cornet 1873 turret shell
65