Dubovac quarry (Cretaceous of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Also known as near Bileca

Where: Bosnia and Herzegovina (42.9° N, 18.4° E: paleocoordinates 25.8° N, 17.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• No detailed analysis of the site was performed, while its stratigraphic position according to the Basic Geological Map of Yugoslavia is within lower Turonian sediments

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

• thin limestone slab

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by quarry workers in 2017

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Natural History Museum in Belgrade

Primary reference: D. Duric, D. Radosavljevic, D. Petrovic, M. Radonjic, and P. Vojnovic. 2017. A new evidence for pachyostotic snake from Turonianof Bosnia-Herzegovina. Annales Geologiques de la Peninsule Balkanique 78:17-21 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 191944: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 24.02.2018

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Pachyophidae
"Pachyophiidae indet." = Pachyophidae
"Pachyophiidae indet." = Pachyophidae Nopcsa 1923 snake
NHMBEO MV 280, 29 vertebrae and their corresponding ribs