Gliwice area, Gl-21 borehole, sample G15 (Miocene of Poland)

Where: Poland (50.3° N, 18.7° E: paleocoordinates 50.6° N, 17.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gliwice Formation, Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)

• Lower Serravallian, NN6/7

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; poorly lithified, gray claystone

• Upper Silesia Basin. The examined samples pertain to the upper part ( 100- 19.2 meters below surhce)of the core, overlaying the Middle Badenian chemical deposits of the Krzyzanowice Formation. Gliwice Formation is a lithostratigraphic unit occurri.g in the Upper Silesia and correqponding to the lower portion of the Machow Formation, from the eastern part of the Fore-Carpathian Depression, referred to the Upper Badenian.
• Supraevaporitic grey clays and marly clay.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: G. Aiello and J. Szczechura. 2004. Middle Miocene ostracods of the Fore-Carpathian Depression (Central Paratethys, southwestern Poland). Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 43(1-2):11-70 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138846: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 29.01.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Podocopida -
 Podocopida - Xestoleberididae
 Podocopida - Bythocytheridae
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
"Pontocythere curvata" = Cushmanidea ostracod
 Podocopida - Cytherettidae
 Podocopida - Loxoconchidae
Nipponocythere silesiensis Szczechura and Aiello 2003 ostracod
 Podocopida - Cytheruridae
 Podocopida - Trachyleberididae
Henryhowella asperrima Reuss 1850 ostracod
 Podocopida - Cytheridae
 Podocopida - Brachycytheridae
 Podocopida - Krithidae
 Podocopida -
 Podocopida - Neocytherideidae
 Podocopida - Hemicytheridae
Aurila cicatricosa Reuss 1850 ostracod
 Podocopida - Leptocytheridae
 Podocopida - Paradoxostomatidae
 Podocopida -
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Neonesidea mediterranea Müller 1894 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bythocyprididae
 Podocopida - Pontocyprididae
 Life -
Kunihirella eracleaensis Bonaduce et al. 1994
Senesia vadaszi Zalanyi 1913
Loxoconchidea minima Bonaduce et al. 1976