Devín-Štítová locality, lower 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: Badenian (13.7 - 12.7 Ma)

• Late Badenian

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; brown sandstone and claystone

• 259 m. calcareous sand–sandy clay
• bioclastic sandstones with lithoclasts and plant fragments

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 145916: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 12.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Acanthocardia sp. Gray 1851 cockle