Mt. Munella, beds 4-6, Mirdita zone, Puke (Cretaceous to of Albania)

Where: Albania (42.0° N, 20.1° E: paleocoordinates 23.0° N, 23.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Barremian to Barremian (129.4 - 113.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone and lithified sandstone

• alternation of sandstones, conglomerates and marly limestones; various types of limestones with rare intercalations of conglomerates and sandstones in the upper part

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: H. A. Kollmann and L. H. Peza. 1997. Diptyxis Oppenheim (Nerineacea, Gastropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Albania. On the distribution of the genus Diptyxis. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien, A 98:17-33 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67437: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.11.2006

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Taxonomic list

Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Foraminifera
 Loftusiacea - Cyclamminidae
Choffatella decipiens Schlumberger 1905
 Involutinina - Trocholinidae
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
 Carditida - Astartidae
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panopea plicata Sowerby 1829 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Protocardia anglica cockle
subspecies anglica
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
 Hippuritida - Requieniidae
Requienia sp. Matheron 1842 rudist
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Rutitrigonia longa Agassiz 1840 clam
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Nerinellidae
"Nerinea pauli" = Cossmannea (Eunerinea) pauli Coquand 1862 snail
Nerinella sp. Sharpe 1849 snail
 Heterostropha - Nerineidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Acteoninidae
"Actaeonina syriaca" = Acteonina
"Actaeonina syriaca" = Acteonina snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Purpurinidae
 Pseudomelanoidea - Pseudomelaniidae
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
Terebrella
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