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A new dicynodont–archosaur assemblage from the Late Triassic (Carnian) of Poland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2011

Tomasz Sulej
Affiliation:
Instytut Paleobiologii PAN, Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warszawa, Poland Email: sulej@twarda.pan.pl; niedz@twarda.pan.pl
Robert Bronowicz
Affiliation:
Wydział Geologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Al. Żwirki i Wigury 93, PL 02-089 Warszawa, Poland Email: r.bronowicz@uw.edu.pl
Mateusz Tałanda
Affiliation:
Instytut Zoologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Banacha 2, 02-079 Warszawa, Poland Email: m.talanda@student.uw.edu.pl; gniedzwiedzki@biol.uw.edu.pl
Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki
Affiliation:
Instytut Paleobiologii PAN, Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warszawa, Poland Email: sulej@twarda.pan.pl; niedz@twarda.pan.pl Instytut Zoologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Banacha 2, 02-079 Warszawa, Poland Email: m.talanda@student.uw.edu.pl; gniedzwiedzki@biol.uw.edu.pl

Abstract

This paper reports a new assemblage from the Late Triassic (mid–late Carnian) at Woźniki near Częstochowa (Poland). The Woźniki vertebrate assemblage is similar to that of Lisowice–Lipie Śląskie, a new locality bearing vertebrates from latest Triassic (latest Norian–early Rhaetian) strata of southern Poland, in the presence of dicynodonts, shark spines, plagiosaurs and a cyclotosaur, but conchostracans and bivalves are similar to those from the Krasiejów site (late Carnian). The most complete specimen from Woźniki belongs to a dicynodont, and consists of cranial and postcranial bones of a single individual. It demonstrates that large dicynodonts were part of the Late Triassic vertebrate assemblage in Central Europe. Numerous tetrapod tracks and traces are associated with skeletal fossils at Woźniki.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 2011

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