Mala Cuka Borehole in eastern Serbia, Bed 5 (Jurassic of Serbia and Montenegro)

Where: Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro (43.8° N, 22.4° E: paleocoordinates 24.7° N, 26.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Vrska Cuka Formation, Aalenian (174.1 - 170.3 Ma)

• Bed 5 has a thickness of 48.10m

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, argillaceous siltstone

• Shallow-sea beds.
• Clayey siltstones.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: V. Radulovic, D. Boskovic, and D. Rabrenovic. 1997. O dogerskoj (alenskoj) starosti povlate ugljy Vrshke Chuke, istochna Srbija. On the Dogger (Aalenian) age of the Vrska Cuka Coal Overbed, Eastern Serbia. Geoloski Anali Balkanskoga Poluostrva 61(2):139-151 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51554: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 08.06.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Palaeonucula hammeri Defrance 1825 nut clam
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium (Entolium) corneolum Young and Bird 1828 scallop
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillella aviculoides Sowerby 1814 oyster
Gervillella lanceolata Muenster 1826 oyster
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
 Thraciida - Thraciidae
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
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