Where: Croatia (45.1° N, 13.8° E: paleocoordinates 28.6° N, 21.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: "Kanfanar" Formation, Early/Lower Aptian (121.4 - 122.5 Ma)
• intervals b, c, b', d and e; frequent rudist occurences within interval c and e; Palorbitolina lenticularis zone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified floatstone and lithified grainstone
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 63999: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.08.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cyanophyceae | |
Bacinella irregularis Radoicic 1959 | |
Chlorophyceae | |
Foraminifera | |
Tubothalamea | |
Foraminifera | |
Mayncina bulgarica Laug et al. 1980 | |
Bivalvia | |
Toucasia sp. Munier-Chalmas 1873 rudist
? Requienia zlatarskii rudist |