Summary of a decade of research at the Owadów–Brzezinki Lagerstätte (Tithonian, central Poland): A review and perspectives for the future

• Autorzy: Błażejowski Błażej , Weryński Łukasz , Wierzbowski Andrzej , Michalska Monika , Hryniewicz Krzysztof , Uchman Alfred , Kugler Stanisław , Bącal Paweł , Hołda-Michalska Aleksandra
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

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For over ten years, the Lower to Upper Tithonian boundary beds cropping out in the Owadów–Brzezinki quarry have yielded numerous fossils of ammonites, bivalves, brachiopods, xiphosurans, decapods, insects, and vertebrates – including actinopterygian fishes and various reptiles and others, all of which exhibit fine preservation of their anatomical details due to special environmental conditions during their fossilization. The Owadów–Brzezinki section is also important for stratigraphical correlations because it contains ammonite faunas indicative of the NE European and NW European Subboreal zonal schemes, as well as Tethyan calpionellids. The whole faunal as- semblage, which represents taxa of many iconic groups of Mesozoic animals, has created the opportunity to establish the ‘Owadów– Brzezinki geopark’, a geoeducation area where the public, and especially the young, can learn about the beauty of the natural history of the region.

Słowa kluczowe

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Late Jurassic; Tithonian; marine fossils; terrestrial fossils; palaeobiogeography; palaeontology

PL

późna jura; Tytonian; skamieniałości morskie; skamieliny ziemskie; paleobiogeografia; paleontologia

• Wydawca: Państwowy Instytut Geologiczny - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy
• Czasopismo: Volumina Jurassica
• Rocznik: 2023
• Tom: Vol. 21
• Strony: 83--98
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 35 poz.

Twórcy

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Błażejowski Błażej

• Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Paleobiology, Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warszawa, Poland
• Polish Academy of Sciences, Museum of the Earth in Warsaw, Al. Na Skarpie 27, 00-488 Warszawa, Poland

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Weryński Łukasz

• Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Geography and Geology, Institute of Geological Sciences, Gronostajowa 3a, 30-387 Kraków, Poland

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Wierzbowski Andrzej

• University of Warsaw, Faculty of Geology, Żwirki i Wigury 93, 02-089 Warszawa, Poland

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Michalska Monika

• University of Warsaw, Faculty of Geology, Żwirki i Wigury 93, 02-089 Warszawa, Poland

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Hryniewicz Krzysztof

• Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Paleobiology, Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warszawa, Poland

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Uchman Alfred

• Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Geography and Geology, Institute of Geological Sciences, Gronostajowa 3a, 30-387 Kraków, Poland

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Kugler Stanisław

• Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Geography and Geology, Institute of Geological Sciences, Gronostajowa 3a, 30-387 Kraków, Poland

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Bącal Paweł

• Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Paleobiology, Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warszawa, Poland

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Hołda-Michalska Aleksandra

• Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Paleobiology, Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warszawa, Poland

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