Kozina: Thanetian, Slovenia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Dendrophylliidae
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Dendrophyllia candelabrum
Henning 1899
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Anthozoa
- Scleractinia
- Oculinidae
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Oculina conferta
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850
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Geography
| Country: | Slovenia | State/province: | Slovenia |
| Coordinates: | 45.6° North, 14.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.8° North, 12.8° East | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
| Stage: | Thanetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Thanetian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 59.20000 - 56.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Kras | Formation: | Trstelj | Member: | lower |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Corresponding to the lower part of the Miliolid Limesstone of Pavlovec (1963). Bsaed on the foraminiferal assemblage the age of this collection correspond to the SBZ 3(early Thanetian-Late Selandian). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified packstone | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Lithology description: Thickly-bedded packstones to wackestones composed by benthic foraminifera, mainly miliolids, dasycladaceans, corals and peloids. | |||
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
| Geology comments: Protected lagoon | |||
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | recrystallized,original aragonite,replaced with calcite |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Abundance in sediment: | few |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,peel or thin section |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:determination done by D.Turnsek from ZRC SAZU, Lubljana | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 80828 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | J. Zamagni | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-05-14 02:35:53 | Last modified: | 2008-05-14 05:35:53 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2010-01-08 10:39:56 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 26603. | J. Zamagni, A. Kosir, and M. Mutti. 2009. The first microbialite-coral mounds in the Cenozoic (Uppermost Paleocene) from the Northern Tethys (Slovenia): Environmentally-triggered phase shifts preceding the PETM?. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 274(1-2):1-17 [W. Kiessling/J. Zamagni/W. Kiessling] |