Przysucha Formation

The Przysucha Formation is a geologic formation in Poland. Ichnofossils attributed to dinosaurs have been found in the 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	50.9°N 21.3°E
Approximate paleocoordinates	43.3°N 19.7°E
Region	Swietokrzyskie
Country	Poland
Extent	Holy Cross Mountains
Przysucha Formation (Poland)

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., and G. Niedzwiedzki. 2005. New saurischian dinosaur footprints from the Lower Jurassic of Poland. Geological Quarterly 49. 99-104.
• Weishampel, David B.; Peter Dodson, and Halszka Osmólska (eds.). 2004. The Dinosauria, 2nd edition, 1–880. Berkeley: University of California Press. Accessed 2019-02-21. ISBN 0-520-24209-2
• Gierlinski, G., and A. Potemska. 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.