page_title: Paleobiota of the Ciechocinek Formation
hierarchical_section_title: Paleobiota of the Ciechocinek Formation
caption_attribution_description: English: Remake of the original picture of the Drzewica Formation. Terrestrial environment of the Toarcian of Łęczna (Ciechocinek Formation, Lublin, Poland), based on the Bogdanka Coal Mine Flora. Inland environment of the Polish Realm of the Ciechocinek Formation (Mostly Seashore or related). Ciechocinek Formation is dated from the Lower to Middle Toarcian(Pieńkowski, 2004) and it is que regional equivalent of the Posidonia Shale. The Fauna and flora appear based on the reported Footprints &amp; fossil wood Diversified trace fossils (Specially Invertebrates) are common. Dinosaurs are based on material found on various locations of the formation. Dinosaur Species appeared: Orionides spp. The assignation to the Orionides Group comes tho the find of dorsal vertebrae on the German Margin of the formation (Huene, 1966). Gravisauria spp. representing the Grimmen Sauropod reported on 2014. Coelophysoidea spp. based on coeval Anchisauripus tracks. Basal Ornithischan, related to Eocursor, based on a crouching trace (Gerard Dariusz Gierlinski, Martin G. Lockley, Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki:2009). Massospondylidae spp. based on Otozum-like tracks.
context_page_description: The Ciechocinek Formation, is a Jurassic geologic formation that extends from Grimmen, Germany, to Poland. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, including the Thyreorporan Emausaurus and others which have not yet been referred to a specific genus. On Poland, the main basin if charaserized mostly by lack of marine microfauna in the Częstochowa-Zawiercie area. It is mainly composed by Foraminiferans: Ammodiscus glumaceous, Trochammina? sp., Lagenammina sp., Saccammina? sp. and Dentalina sp., as well as the Ostracodan Liasina sp. The crustacean Estheria is relatively abundant, along traces of Diplocraterion and the inconclusive remains of Clams, Snails and Fish teeth. The discussed settlement complex, due to its characteristic lithological education with floristic and faunistic analogies, allows without difficulty to parallelize with similarly developed sediments in the Polish Lowlands.
context_section_description: The Ciechocinek Formation, is a Jurassic (lower to middle Toarcian) geologic formation that extends from Grimmen, Germany, to Poland. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation, including the Thyreorporan Emausaurus and others which have not yet been referred to a specific genus. On Poland, the main basin if charaserized mostly by lack of marine microfauna in the Częstochowa-Zawiercie area. It is mainly composed by Foraminiferans: Ammodiscus glumaceous, Trochammina? sp., Lagenammina sp., Saccammina? sp. and Dentalina sp. (On Pabianice, Łutowiec and Żarki), as well as the Ostracodan Liasina sp. The crustacean Estheria is relatively abundant, along traces of Diplocraterion and the inconclusive remains of Clams, Snails and Fish teeth (On Żuki, Gorzków, Choroń and Bobolice). The discussed settlement complex, due to its characteristic lithological education with floristic and faunistic analogies, allows without difficulty to parallelize with similarly developed sediments in the Polish Lowlands.
caption: Terrestrial environment of Łęczna (Lublin, Poland), based on the Bogdanka Coal Mine Flora. Dinosaurs are based on material found on various locations of the formation
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