Mount Razor (Triassic of Slovenia)

Where: Slovenia (46.4° N, 13.8° E: paleocoordinates 17.7° N, 18.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tuvalian (232.0 - 221.5 Ma)

• above the grey bedded Upper Carnian limestones

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified limestone

• 8 m thick platy limestones, with cephalopods of the Hallstatt facies and brachiopods

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Ramovs. 2001. Prvo najdisce brahiopodov v vrhnjih tuvalskih apnencih (zgornji karnij) severnoalpskega hallstattskega razvoja v Julijskih Alpah [First find of brachiopods in the Upper Tuvalian limestones (Upper Carnian) in the northern Alps Hallstatt facies of the Julian Alps]. Geologija 44(2):291-294 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85148: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.12.2008

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Mentzeliidae
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
 Athyridida - Koninckinidae
Koninckina sp., "Koninckina cf. expansa" = Carinokoninckina expansa, "Koninckina aff. telleri" = Carinokoninckina telleri
Koninckina sp. Suess 1853
"Koninckina cf. expansa" = Carinokoninckina expansa Bittner 1890
subsp.crassitesta
"Koninckina aff. telleri" = Carinokoninckina telleri Bittner 1890
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Arcestidae
Arcestes sp. Suess 1865 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Juvavitidae
Projuvavites jaworskii Diener 1893 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Haloritidae
Barrandeites turbina Dittmar 1866 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Tropitidae
Discotropites plinii Mojsisovics 1893 ceratite