Buzemadhe Hill, Voskopoje, Mirdita Zone, Korce (Cretaceous to of Albania)

Where: Albania (40.6° N, 20.7° E: paleocoordinates 21.6° N, 22.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Barremian to Barremian (129.4 - 113.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified conglomerate and lithified sandstone

• 50 m of alternating conglomerates and sandstones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. A. Kollmann and L. H. Peza. 1997. Adaptyxis n.gen. (Umboniidae, Nerineacea, Gastropoda) from the Mirdita Zone of Albania; remarks on the early phylogeny of the Nerineacea. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien, A 98:1-15 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67452: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.11.2006

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Archaeogastropoda - Umboniidae
Adaptyxis lavdaris n. gen. n. sp., Adaptyxis carinatus n. sp.
Adaptyxis lavdaris n. gen. n. sp. snail
Adaptyxis carinatus n. sp. snail
 Heterostrophia -
 Heterostropha - Nerinellidae
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Caprinidae
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Neithea atava Roemer 1839 scallop
Neithea morrisi Pictet and Renevier 1858 scallop
Foraminifera
 Orbitolinacea - Orbitolinidae