Also known as Annopol
Where: Annopol, Poland (51.8° N, 20.6° E: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 19.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)
• Lower part of unit 3, upper upper Albian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic, brown, sandy phosphorite
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• Articulated parts of the carapace of a Protostegidae gen. - the vertebral shields of epidermal shell (see text for further explanation).
Collection methods: surface (in situ)
• From a condensed, phosphate-rich mid-Cretaceous succession as exposed along the limbs of a small anticline.
Primary reference: A. Kapuscinska and M. Machalski. 2015. Upper Albian chelonioid turtles from Poland. Geobios 28:385-395 [M. Uhen/M. Bean]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 178042: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Meredith Bean on 14.04.2016, edited by Patricia Holroyd, Philip Mannion and Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Reptilia | |
Plesiosauria indet. plesiosaur
Polyptychodon interruptus Owen 1841 plesiosaur | |
Pliosauridae indet. Seeley 1874 plesiosaur | |
Elasmosauridae indet. Cope 1869 elasmosaur | |
"Platypterygius" sp. von Huene 1922 ichthyosaur | |
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