Winnica (Oligocene of Poland)

Where: Podkarpackie, Poland (49.7° N, 21.6° E: paleocoordinates 46.6° N, 19.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: CP23 nannofossil zone, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; shale and brown, gray sandstone

• modern riverbed
• "They were collected from Carpathian menilitic shales at Winnica near Jaslo...The specimen was found in greyish-brown menilitic shales intercalating the Krosno sandstone beds, about 30 m above the foot of the mentioned bank."

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Mlynarski. 1959. Glarichelys knorri (GRAY) - A Cheloniid From Carpathian Menilitic Shales (POLAND). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica IV(2):177-192 [M. Uhen/N. Doriguzzi/N. Doriguzzi]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 174689: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Nicole Doriguzzi on 24.11.2015, edited by Patricia Holroyd and Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Gadiformes - Merlucciidae
"Palaeogadus simionescui" = Palaeogadus (Lotimorpha) simionescui1
"Palaeogadus simionescui" = Palaeogadus (Lotimorpha) simionescui1 Daniltshenko 1950
 Perciformes -
Oliganodon budensis1 Heckel 1856 perch-like fish
 Perciformes - Repropcidae
Repropca sabbai1 Pauca 1929 perch-like fish
Aves
 Passeriformes -
Winnicavis gorskii n. gen. n. sp.1
Winnicavis gorskii n. gen. n. sp.1 Bochenski et al. 2018 perching bird
Reptilia
 Testudines - Cheloniidae
Glarichelys cf. knorri2 Gray 1831 sea turtle