ammonites
Węże (Pliocene of Poland)

Also known as Weze I

Where: Poland (52.3° N, 22.2° E: paleocoordinates 52.5° N, 21.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: MN 15 (4.2 - 3.2 Ma)

• Assigned to mammalian zone MN 15 (Ref 9172, 1989).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; shelly/skeletal breccia

• "bone breccia"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Mlynarski, 1962, has Weze I and Weze II on the taxonomic list, but only describes Weze I in terms of locality, so it's unclear what the relationship betwen I and II is.

Primary reference: K. Kowalski. 1962. Fauna of Bats from the Pliocene of Weze in Poland. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 7(3):1-51 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 33396: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 28.07.2003, edited by Hannah O'Regan, Jason Head, Juliette Richter, Lars van den Hoek Ostende and John Alroy

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