Brvniste, Vahtal (Jurassic of Slovakia)

Where: Slovakia (49.2° N, 18.4° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 21.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; brown, green breccia

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Kochanova and V. Kollarova-Andrusovova. 1971. Unterlias der Czorstyner Schichtfolge bei Brvniste im Vahtale und seine Fauna (Klippen Zone, Westslowakei). Geologicky Zbornik - Geologica Carpathica 12(1):137-148 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 141986: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 03.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Cylindrobullinidae
Cylindrobullina sp. von Ammon 1878 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula sp. Lamarck 1801 scallop
Plicatula (Harpax) cf. spinosa Sowerby 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
"Lima hettangiensis" = Pseudolimea hettangiensis Terquem 1855 file clam
Plagiostoma punctatum Sowerby 1818 file clam
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chlamys (Aequipecten) sp." = Aequipecten
"Chlamys (Aequipecten) sp." = Aequipecten Fischer 1886 scallop
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea arcuata Lamarck 1801 oyster
Gryphaea arcuata lata
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus scalprum Sowerby 1821 mussel
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Myoconcha sp. Sowerby 1824 clam
Malacostraca
 Decapoda -
Cardinia sp. Edwards 1837 decapod