Reef cover, Grobie, Holy Cross Mts., Poland (Miocene of Poland)

Also known as Reef 3227

Where: Poland (50.5° N, 20.8° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 47.9° N, 22.1° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sublithothamnium Level Member (Pinczow Formation), Badenian (13.7 - 12.7 Ma)

• Top of reef facies

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified bindstone

• coralline algal limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: M. Gorka. 2002. The Lower Badenian (Middle Miocene) coral patch reef at Grobie (southern slopes of the Holy Cross Mountains, Central Poland), its origin, development and demise. Acta Geologica Polonica 52(4):521-534 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 32517: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 08.07.2003

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Florideophyceae
  - Corallinophycidae
Lithophyllum sp. Philippi 1837
Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Celleporidae
Cellepora sp. Linnaeus 1767