Znalezisko amonita Saghalinites wrighti Birkelund w kredzie jednostki magurskiej

• Main Authors: Haczewski, Grzegorz, Szymakowska, Franciszka
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Polish Geological Institute-National Research Institute 2013
• Subjects: Birkelund; Greenland
• Online Access: https://gq.pgi.gov.pl/article/view/8627; https://doi.org/10.7306/gq.v28i3/4.8627

Na luźnym fragmencie ławicy piaskowca warstw ropienickich (kreda grna) w Szczawie znaleziono odcisk amonita Saghalinites wrighti Birkelund znanego dotychczas z mastrychtu Grenlandii.FINDING OF AMMONITE SAGHALINITES WRIGHTI BIRKELUND IN CRETACEOUS OF MAGURA UNIT (WEST CARPATHIANS)A cast of ammonite shell was found in locality Szczawa (Fig. 1) on a sole of sandstone bed in Upper Cretaceous flysch of the Magura Unit. The mode of cast occurrence indicates that the shell was resting at the sea floor before its burial by a turbidity current. The ammonite (Tabl. I, Fig. 2) belongs to the species Saghalinites wrighti Birkelund, described from the Maastrichtian of Greenland (T. Birkelund, 1965) and FRG (T. Birkelund, 1982).