Sample W2, Wạwał clay pit (Cretaceous of Poland)

Also known as Wawal

Where: Poland (51.5° N, 20.1° E: paleocoordinates 43.1° N, 26.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Saynoceras verrucosum ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified claystone

• dark clays and silts; sediments from the Wawal section are largely unlithified

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collected by J. Rees, A. Kaim in 2001

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, acetic, sieve,

• Repository: Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw (ZPAL)

Primary reference: J. Rees. 2005. Neoselachian shark and ray teeth from the Valanginian, Lower Cretaceous, of Wawal, Central Poland. Palaeontology 48(2):209-221 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 213519: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.09.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Synechodontiformes - Palaeospinacidae
Synechodus nitidus Woodward 1912 elasmobranch
 Heterodontiformes - Heterodontidae
Heterodontus polonicus Rees 2005 bullhead shark
 Squatiniformes - Squatinidae
"Squatina cranei" = Squatina (Cretascyllium) cranei
"Squatina cranei" = Squatina (Cretascyllium) cranei Woodward 1888 angel shark
 Rajiformes - Rhinobatidae
Belemnobatis sp. Thiollière 1854 guitarfish
 Lamniformes - Pseudoscapanorhynchidae
Protolamna sp. Cappetta 1980 mackerel shark