Devín-Lomnická, Sandberg Mbr, upper 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: Sandberg Member, Badenian (13.7 - 12.7 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; unlithified, brown, sandy claystone

• grey clays and pale brown-grey to brown-yellow sandy clays

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 145915: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 12.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Corallinaceae indet. Lamouroux 1816
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
Zaria sp. Gray 1842 turret shell
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pectinidae indet. Wilkes 1810 scallop
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Neopycnodonte sp. Stenzel 1971 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Cubitostrea sp. Sacco 1897 oyster
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucinoma sp. Dall 1901 clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam
 Cardiida - Glossidae
Glossus sp. Poli 1795 clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Scalaricardita sp." = Cyclocardia (Scalaricardita)
"Scalaricardita sp." = Cyclocardia (Scalaricardita) clam
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Fissidentalium sp. Fischer 1885 tusk shell
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835