Tounj, Ogulin area, central Croatia (Cretaceous of Croatia)

Where: Croatia (45.3° N, 15.3° E: paleocoordinates 28.1° N, 22.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Aptian (121.4 - 122.5 Ma)

• Palorbitolina lenticularis zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified wackestone and lithified floatstone

• orbitolinid-rich wackestones in the lower part and massive, coarse-grained bioclastic-skeletal floatstones to rudstones in the upper part

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: J. P. Masse, M. Fenerci-Masse, T. Korbar and I. Velic. 2004. Lower Aptian rudist faunas (Bivalvia, Hippuritoidea) from Croatia. Geologia Croatica 57(2):117-137 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64000: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.08.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• rudists are associated with corals and gastropods, and fragments of bryozoans and stromatoporoids
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Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Bacinella sp.
Bacinella sp. Radoicic 1959
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Agriopleura sp.
Agriopleura sp. Kühn 1832 rudist
 Hippuritida - Caprinulidae
Himeraelites sp.
Himeraelites sp. Stefano 1889 rudist
 Hippuritida - Monopleuridae
Glossomyophorus costatus
 Hippuritida - Caprinidae
Offneria sp.
Offneria sp. Paquier 1905 rudist
Crinoidea
 Roveacrinida - Saccocomidae
Saccocoma sp.
Saccocoma sp. Agassiz 1836 Sea lily
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Salpingoporella dinarica
Foraminifera
 Textulariina - Cuneolinidae
Sabaudia briacensis
 Orbitolinacea - Orbitolinidae
Praeorbitolina cormyi, Praeorbitolina wienandsi, Orbitolina (Mesorbitolina) lotzei, Palorbitolina lenticularis
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Hauerinidae
Derventina filipescui
Foraminifera
 Involutinina - Involutinidae
Neotrocholina aptiensis, Neotrocholina friburgensis
Neotrocholina aptiensis
[entered as Netrocholina aptiensis]
Neotrocholina friburgensis
[entered as Netrocholina friburgensis]
 Globigerinina - Hedbergellidae
Hedbergella sp.
Hedbergella sp.
[entered as Hedgerbella sp.]