Mount Korosica (Triassic of Slovenia)

Where: Slovenia (46.4° N, 14.3° E: paleocoordinates 7.1° N, 23.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Korosica Formation, Longobardian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Slovenian Museum of Natural History

Primary reference: T. Hitij, J. Žalohar, B. Celarc, M. Križnar, S. Renesto and A. Tintori. 2010. The kingdom of Tethys. The fossilized world of Triassic vertebrates from the Kamniško-Savinjske Alps. Scopolia Suppl 5:1-197 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 166631: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.02.2015, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Ostreida - Halobiidae
Daonella lommeli Wissmann 1841 oyster
 Ostreida - Posidoniidae
"Posidonia wengensis" = Bositra wengensis, Posidonia pannonica
"Posidonia wengensis" = Bositra wengensis Wissmann 1841 oyster
Posidonia pannonica Mojsisovics 1873 oyster
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Trachyceratidae
Trachyceras sp. Laube 1869 ceratite
Protrachyceras sp. Mojsisovics 1893 ceratite
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
 Dasycladales - Polyphysaceae
Teutloporella herculea Stoppani 1857
Protozoa
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Foraminifera
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
? Frondicularia sp. Defrance 1824
Foraminifera
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Glomospira sp. Rzehak 1895