Devín-Štítová locality, upper part (Miocene of Slovakia)

Where: Slovakia (48.2° N, 17.0° E: paleocoordinates 47.7° N, 16.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sandberg Member, Badenian (13.7 - 12.7 Ma)

• Late Badenian

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; brown sandstone

• 259 m
• fine-grained sands

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: M. Hyzny, N. Hudackova, R. Biskupic, S. Rybar, T. Fuksi, E. Halasova, K. Zagorsek, M. Jamrich, and Peter Ledvak. 2012. Devínska Kobyla- a window into the Middle Miocene shallow-water marine environments of the Central Paratethys (Vienna Basin, Slovakia). Acta Geologica Slovaca 4(2):95-111 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/S. Ávila]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 145917: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 12.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Rosalinidae
Foraminifera
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
 Rotalioidea - Elphidiidae
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pectinidae indet. Wilkes 1810 scallop
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod