Korytnica, Jędrzejów County

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{{Infobox settlement

| name = Korytnica

| settlement_type = Village

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| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{POL}}

| subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship

| subdivision_name1 = Świętokrzyskie

| subdivision_type2 = County

| subdivision_name2 = Jędrzejów

| subdivision_type3 = Gmina

| subdivision_name3 = Sobków

| coordinates = {{coord|50|39|25|N|20|31|0|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}

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| population_total = 860

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Korytnica {{IPAc-pl|k|o|r|y|t|'|n|i|c|a}} is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Sobków, within Jędrzejów County, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, in south-central Poland. It lies approximately {{convert|7|km|mi|0}} south-east of Sobków, {{convert|16|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} east of Jędrzejów, and {{convert|27|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} south of the regional capital Kielce.{{cite web |url=http://www.stat.gov.pl/broker/access/prefile/listPreFiles.jspa |title=Central Statistical Office (GUS) - TERYT (National Register of Territorial Land Apportionment Journal) |date=2008-06-01 |language=Polish}}

The village is famous for a palaeontological locality situated nearby.{{Cite web |title=KDG: Iły korytnickie i ich fauna |url=https://geostanowiska.pgi.gov.pl/gsapp_v2/ObjectDetails.aspx?id=2014 |access-date=2024-12-04 |website=geostanowiska.pgi.gov.pl}} It yielded several Miocene species, above all gastropods. Some of these fossil animals were named after the village, like for example the bryozoan Stephanollona korytnicensis.{{cite journal|author=Zágoršek, K.; Radwańska, U.; Radwański, A. |date=2012 |issn=1214-1119 |journal=Bulletin of Geosciences |issue=2 |pages=201–218 |title=Bryozoa from the Korytnica Basin (Middle Miocene; Holy Cross Mountains, Central Poland) |volume=87|doi=10.3140/bull.geosci.1249 }}