Where: Slovenia (46.3° N, 14.3° E: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 12.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Gornji Grad Formation, Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)
• Gornji Grad aka Oberburg Beds, Middle Oligocene
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: G. Kolosvary. 1967. Korallen und Balaniden aus den paläogenen Schichten Jugoslawiens [Corals and balanids from Paleogene beds of Yugoslavia]. Geologija 10:205-218 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 87472: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca | |
"Balanus concavus" = Concavus concavus, "Balanus tintinnabulum" = Megabalanus tintinnabulum, Balanus cf. stellaris, Balanus cf. improvisus, Balanus crenatus
"Balanus concavus" = Concavus concavus Bronn 1831 barnacle
"Balanus tintinnabulum" = Megabalanus tintinnabulum Linnaeus 1758 barnacle
Balanus cf. stellaris barnacle
Balanus cf. improvisus Darwin 1854 barnacle
Balanus crenatus Bruguière 1789 barnacle | |
Anthozoa | |
Stylophora conferta Reuss 1868 stony coral | |
Calamophylliopsis grandis stony coral | |
Actinacis rollei Reuss 1864 stony coral | |
"Mycetoseris patula" = Cyathoseris
"Mycetoseris patula" = Cyathoseris stony coral | |
Trochocyathus sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Euphyllia contorta stony coral | |
? Trochosmilia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Phyllangia epithecalis Lörenthey 1917 stony coral |