VGK-38, Lake Slavonia Viviparus beds (Pliocene of Croatia)

Where: Croatia (45.6° N, 16.1° E: paleocoordinates 45.4° N, 16.0° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Viviparus other zone, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• This publication introduces the new Cernikian regional stage, which corresponds to the Viviparus (=Paludina) beds, and is broadly congruent to the Pliocene and lower Pleistocene (4.5 m.y.a. to 2 m.y.a.).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithology not reported

• Paleolake Lake Slavonia. "The investigated region (Figure 1) represents the southern margin of the Sava depression, a NW-SE striking extensional structure filled by more than 5 km of predominantly siliciclastic Neogene deposits." "The Pannonian back-arc basin is a large Neogene extensional structure located between the Alpine, Dinaride and Carpathian fold-and-thrust belts in central and SE Europe."
• Lithology not described, but associated lacustrine samples are unlithified silts.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: O. Mandic, T. Kurečić, T. A. Neubauer and M. Narzhauser. 2015. Stratigraphic and palaeogeographic significance of lacustrine molluscs from the Pliocene Viviparus beds in central Croatia. Geologia Croatica 68(3):179-207 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 185965: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 31.05.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Molluscan fossils collected (gastropods and bivalves)
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Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Viviparidae
Viviparus dezmanianus
Viviparus dezmanianus Brusina 1874 snail