Where: Poland (51.3° N, 22.0° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 37.8° N, 28.1° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Belemnella kazimiroviensis zone, Opoka Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Bed 2
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified, burrowed, hardground, gray carbonate
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 27819: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Marcus Apel on 14.01.2003, edited by Uta Merkel
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Chilodonta rudis snail | |
Trochacanthus nilssoni snail | |
? Margarites leavis snail | |
Tornatellaea kongieli n. sp.
Tornatellaea kongieli n. sp. snail | |
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Cylichna faba Kner 1869 snail | |
? Natica exaltata moon snail
? Natica cretacea Goldfuss 1841 moon snail | |
Lemintina nodosa worm shell | |
Rostellana aequecostata volute
Volutilithes kneri volute | |
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Tibia laevis true conch | |
Aporrhais pyriformis, ? Aporrhais nadjini, ? Aporrhais sp., Drepanocheilus substenoptera, Kaunhowenia carinifera, Arrhoges (Latiala) pelecyphora, Perissoptera emarginulata
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Charonia multicostata triton
"Charonia (Sassia) tuberculosa" = Sassia triton shell
Biplex cretaceus n. sp. triton shell | |
Xenophora onusta Nilsson 1827 carrier shell | |
Bittium (Semibittium) triptychum cerith snail
Cerithium mazureki n. sp. cerith snail | |
Laxispira cochleiformis turret shell
"Turritella (Haustator) plana" = Haustator turret shell
Turritella hagenoviana turret shell | |
Tudicla carinata snail
Tudicla althi snail
Tudicla globosa n. sp. snail
Tudicla sp. Röding 1798 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Nucula truncata" = Portlandia arctica
"Nucula truncata" = Portlandia arctica Gray 1824 clam | |
Nuculana puschi pointed nut clam
Nuculana foersteri pointed nut clam | |
Panopea mandibula clam | |
Cuspidaria caudata clam | |
Cercomya harpa clam | |
Legumen fragilis venus clam | |
Tenea cf. ovalis clam | |
Nemocardium fenestratum cockle
Granocardium alutacium cockle
Granocardium (Criocardium) productum Sowerby 1832 cockle | |
Gyropleura inequirostrata rudist | |
Mutiella coarctata clam | |
Opis ventricosa clam
Astarte similis Munster 1840 clam | |
Neithea sexcostata Woodward 1833 scallop | |
Lyropecten (Aequipecten) acuteplicatus, Merklinia variabilis, Spondylus serratus, "Spondylus dutempleanus" = Spondylus fimbriatus
Lyropecten (Aequipecten) acuteplicatus Alth 1850 scallop more than 600 seperate valves from Kazimierz, Janowiec and the majority from Nasilow, Bochotnica
Merklinia variabilis Hagenow 1842 scallop
Spondylus serratus scallop
"Spondylus dutempleanus" = Spondylus fimbriatus Goldfuss 1835 scallop | |
"Limatula kunradensis" = Limatula, "Limatula ovata" = Limatula, Plagiostoma cretacea, Plagiostoma hoperi, ? Pseudolimea granulata
"Limatula kunradensis" = Limatula file clam
"Limatula ovata" = Limatula file clam
Plagiostoma cretacea file clam
Plagiostoma hoperi Mantell 1822 file clam
? Pseudolimea granulata file clam | |
Hyotissa semiplana, "Pycnodonte (Phygaea) vesiculare" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis
Hyotissa semiplana Sowerby 1825 oyster
"Pycnodonte (Phygaea) vesiculare" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster | |
Tenuipteria argentea Conrad 1858 clam | |
"Arca (Eonavicula) granulatoradiata" = Eonavicula clam
Barbatia geinitzi Reuss 1844 clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium multicostatum tusk shell
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Anthozoa | |
Madrepora sp. Linne 1758 stony coral |