Borehole South of Sladun (Eocene to of Bulgaria)

Where: Bulgaria (41.9° N, 26.5° E: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 23.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bartonian to Bartonian (41.3 - 33.9 Ma)

• formation unnamed; found in borehole at depth of 176m

•latest Bartonian or early Priabonian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; brown, sandy siltstone

• interpreted as alluvial plain
• brownish siltstone with dispersed fine quartz grains. The rock is compacted, finely laminated, and belongs to the upper part of the basal breccia-conglomerate-sandstone formation

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. Mennecart, D. Geraads, N. Spassov and I. Zagorchev. 2018. Discovery of the oldest European ruminant in the late Eocene of Bulgaria: Did tectonics influence the diachronic development of the Grande Coupure?. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 498:1-8 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192671: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 15.04.2018

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Gelocidae
Bachitherium thraciensis n. sp. Mennecart et al. 2018 ruminant