A new species of large pinnid pelecypods from the Korytnica basin (Middle Miocene; Holy Cross Mountains, Poland)

Abstract

A new species of large pelecypods of the family Pinnidae, Leach, 1819, viz. Atrina radwanskii sp. n., is reported from marly sands making up the upper part of the Middle Miocene (Badenian) sequence of the Korytnica basin (Holy Cross Mountains, central Poland). Some remarks on· the ecology and life habitat·of these large pelecypods are also presented.