Gnaszyn Section B, sample Gns14A (Jurassic of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.8° N, 19.0° E: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 26.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; poorly lithified, black claystone

• deep-water and soft-bottom environments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: sieve,

• The samples (approx. 5kg each) were taken from each lithologically distinct horizon of the succession. They were washed with hot water and washing powder on a sieve (mesh size 0.375 mm) and fossils were picked from residues under the microscope

Primary reference: A. Kaim. 2012. Faunal dynamics of Gastropods in the Bathoninan (Middle Jurrasic) ore-bearing clays at Gnaszyn, Krakow-Silesia Homocline, Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 62(3):367-380 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 141293: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 23.03.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
cf. Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell
 Dentaliida - Laevidentaliidae
cf. Laevidentalium sp. Cossmann 1888 tusk shell
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramidae indet. Giebel 1852 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pectinidae indet. Wilkes 1810 scallop
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytomidae indet. Ichikawa 1958 scallop
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astartidae indet. d'Orbigny 1844 clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbulidae indet., "cf. Varicorbula sp." = Corbula (Varicorbula)
Corbulidae indet. Lamarck 1818 clam
"cf. Varicorbula sp." = Corbula (Varicorbula) Grant and Gale 1931 clam
 Cardiida -
"Veneroida indet." = Veneroidei
"Veneroida indet." = Veneroidei Gray 1854 clam
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Myophorella sp. Bayle 1878 clam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculanidae indet. Adams and Adams 1858 pointed nut clam
Gastropoda
 Seguenzioidea - Eucyclidae
Eucycloscala sp. Cossmann 1895 snail
 Cerithioidea - Cryptaulacidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Iravadiidae
Bralitzia sp. GrĂ¼ndel 1998 snail