Livari, foot of Rumija Mountain (Jurassic of Serbia and Montenegro)

Where: Montenegro, Serbia and Montenegro (42.1° N, 19.2° E: paleocoordinates 25.8° N, 21.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• From the third subunit of unit II, from about the last 20 m of this part of the succession

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified, cherty/siliceous packstone

• Packstones with chert, peloids and echinoderm fragments, and with intercalations of marly limestones. Wackestone beds and biocalcarenites: (1) micritic limestone beds (wackestone) with occasional crinoid ossicles, very small echinoid spines, some bryozoans and rare foraminifera (Agerina martana, Spirillina sp., Lenticulina sp., Frondicularia sp., Trocholina sp.), and scarce ooids; (2) biocalcarenites (mud-supported crinoidal packstone) predominantly with crinoid fragments, abundant sponge spicules, bryozoans, and a few lagenid foraminifera.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by V. Radulović, B. Radulović in 1989

• Repository: Department of Palaeontology, Faculty of Mining and Geology, University of Belgrade

Primary reference: V. Radulović. 2008. A new Pliensbachian rhynchonellide brachiopod from Livari (Rumija Mountain, Montenegro). Fossils and Strata 54:183-192 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 228236: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.11.2022

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
Rhapidothyris sp.
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
"Cuneirhynchia lubrica" = Homoeorhynchia lubrica
"Cuneirhynchia lubrica" = Homoeorhynchia lubrica Uhlig 1880
 Rhynchonellida - Allorhynchidae
Livarirhynchia rajkae n. gen. n. sp.
Livarirhynchia rajkae n. gen. n. sp. Radulović 2008
 Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
Sepkoskirhynchia sphaerica n. gen. n. sp.
Sepkoskirhynchia sphaerica n. gen. n. sp. Radulović 2022
 Rhynchonellida - Prionorhynchiidae
Prionorhynchia fraasi