Przysucha Formation

Przysucha Formation
Stratigraphic range: Hettangian ~200  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Type	Formation
Lithology
Primary	Sandstone
Other	Mudstone
Location
Coordinates	50°54′N21°18′E / 50.9°N 21.3°E / 50.9; 21.3
Approximate paleocoordinates	43°18′N19°42′E / 43.3°N 19.7°E / 43.3; 19.7
Region	Swietokrzyskie
Country	Poland
Extent	Holy Cross Mountains
Przysucha Formation (Poland)

The Przysucha Formation is a geologic formation in Poland. Ichnofossils attributed to dinosaurs have been found in the formation.

Fossil content

The following fossils were reported from the formation: ^[1]

Ichnofossils

• Anomoepus pienkovskii ^[2]
• Grallator (Grallator) zvierzi ^[2]
• Moyenisauropus karaszevskii ^[2]
• Anomoepus sp. ^[3]
• Grallator (Eubrontes) sp. ^[3]
• Kayentapus sp. ^[2]
• Protosuchus sp. ^[2]
• cf. Stenonyx sp. ^[2]

References

1. Przysucha Formation at Fossilworks.org
2. Gierlinski & Potemska, 1987
3. Gierlinski & Niedzwiedzki, 2005

Bibliography

• Gierlinski, G.; Niedzwiedzki, G. (2005), "New saurischian dinosaur footprints from the Lower Jurassic of Poland", Geological Quarterly , 49: 99–104
• Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; Osmólska, Halszka (2004), The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 1–880, ISBN   0-520-24209-2 , retrieved 2019-02-21
• Gierlinski, G.; Potemska, A. (1987), "Lower Jurassic dinosaur footprints from Gliniany Las, northern slope of the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland", Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen , 175: 107–120, doi:10.1127/njgpa/175/1987/107