Reef cover, Grobie, Holy Cross Mts., Poland: Badenian, Poland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Celleporidae
Cellepora sp. Linnaeus 1767
common category
Florideophyceae - Corallinales - Lithophyllaceae
Lithophyllum sp. Philippi 1837
abundant category
see common names

Geography
Country:Poland
Coordinates: 50.5° North, 20.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:50.8° North, 19.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Miocene
Stage: Serravallian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 5
*Period:Late/Upper Tertiary *Epoch:Middle Miocene
*International age/stage:Langhian *Local age/stage:Early/Lower Badenian
Key time interval: Badenian
Age range of interval: 13.82 - 12.8 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Pinczow Member:Sublithothamnium Level
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Top of reef facies
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified bindstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: coralline algal limestone
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Bioerosion:occasional
Encrustation:extreme
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 3227
Database number:32517
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:W. Kiessling
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2003-07-08 04:29:54 Last modified:2003-07-08 07:30:06
Access level:the public Released:2003-07-08 04:29:54
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

8714. 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]