Sibenicnik Hill, Devín-Sibenicny vrch, Upper Member (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: Upper Mbr Member, Badenian (13.7 - 12.7 Ma)

• Late Badenian

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; sandstone

• The malacofauna is dominated by bivalves
• pale friable coarse arcose sandstone (or sand) with angular grains.

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 145906: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 12.06.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Oppenheimopecten sp., Flabellipecten sp., Aequipecten sp., Crassadoma sp., Spondylus sp.
Oppenheimopecten sp. von Teppner 1922 scallop
Flabellipecten sp. Sacco 1897 scallop
Aequipecten sp. Fischer 1886 scallop
Crassadoma sp. Bernard 1986 scallop
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia sp.
Anomia sp. Linnaeus 1758 jingle
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Cubitostrea sp.
Cubitostrea sp. Sacco 1897 oyster