Where: Poland (51.1° N, 21.8° E: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 20.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Nostoceras pozaryskii ammonoid zone, Opoka Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• Age of this locality now confirmed to be upper Campanian according to MACHALSKI et al. (2003); Nostoceras pozaryskii (Kg4)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, yellow, argillaceous, cherty/siliceous limestone
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 28084: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Marcus Apel on 23.01.2003, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling and Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Hainosaurus sp.1 Dollo 1885 mosasaur "Plioplatecarpinae sp. A" - IGPUWAR−5 (fragmentary tooth crown)
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Gastropoda | |
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Calliomphalus boimstrofensis, Calliomphalus granulatus, Calliomphalus inaequecostatus, Calliomphalus (Planolatralus) fruchti
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Cerithium binodosum cerith snail | |
Confusiscala decorata wentletrap | |
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"Columbellaria laevicostata n. sp." = Colombellina (Columbellaria), Columbellaria tuberculosa
"Columbellaria laevicostata n. sp." = Colombellina (Columbellaria) snail
Columbellaria tuberculosa Binkhorst 1861 snail | |
Aporrhais granulosa snail | |
Gyrodes hoernesi moon snail
? Natica cretacea Goldfuss 1841 moon snail | |
Tudicla carinata snail | |
Cylichna faba Kner 1869 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculana producta pointed nut clam
Nuculana puschi pointed nut clam
? Nuculana brevirostris pointed nut clam | |
"Nucula truncata" = Portlandia arctica
"Nucula truncata" = Portlandia arctica Gray 1824 clam | |
Cuspidaria caudata clam | |
Pholadomya (Procardia) decussata Mantell 1822 clam | |
Nemocardium fenestratum cockle | |
Barbatia geinitzi Reuss 1844 clam | |
Gervillia solenoidea Defrance 1820 oyster | |
"Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesiculare" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis
"Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesiculare" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster | |
Acutostrea lunata oyster
Acutostrea incurva Nilsson 1827 oyster | |
Atreta nilssoni Hagenow 1842 scallop | |
Limatula kunradensis file clam
? Pseudolimea granulata file clam | |
Mimachlamys cretosa, "Lyropecten (Aequipecten) wisniowskii" = Aequipecten, Lyropecten (Aequipecten) campaniensis, "Spondylus dutempleanus" = Spondylus fimbriatus
"Lyropecten (Aequipecten) wisniowskii" = Aequipecten scallop
Lyropecten (Aequipecten) campaniensis Orbigny 1847 scallop
"Spondylus dutempleanus" = Spondylus fimbriatus Goldfuss 1835 scallop | |
Propeamussium (Parvamussium) inversum Nilsson 1827 mud scallop |