Gaganitsa, H. acuta zone (Jurassic to of Bulgaria)

Where: Bulgaria (43.3° N, 23.1° E: paleocoordinates 23.3° N, 25.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliensbachian to Late/Upper Pliensbachian (189.6 - 182.0 Ma)

• Homoeorhynchia acuta zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithology not reported

• sublittoral muddy biotope

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: P. Tchoumatchenco. 1996. Zonation and paleoecological distribution of Bulgarian Jurassic brachiopods. In P. Copper, J. Jin (eds.), Brachiopods 269-274 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106909: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.03.2011

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
""Spiriferina" villosa" = Liospiriferina villosa
""Spiriferina" villosa" = Liospiriferina villosa Quenstedt 1858
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Homoeorhynchia acuta Sowerby 1816