Dolenja Vas, Bed 26 (Paleocene of Slovenia)

Where: Slovenia (45.7° N, 14.0° E: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 12.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• bed 26

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified grainstone

• restricted shelf behind algal-coral agglomerations
• foraminiferal-algal grainstone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: K. Drobne, B. Ogorelec, M. Plenicar, M. L. Zucchi-Stolfa, and D. Turnsek. 1988. Maastrichtian, Danian and Thanetian beds in Dolenja Vas (NW Dinarides, Yugoslavia), microfacies foraminifers, rudists and corals. Razprave Slovenska Akademija Znanosti in Umetnosti, Razred za Naravoslovne Vede 29(6):147-224 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79289: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Rotaliacea - Pellatispiridae
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
 Nummulitacea - Discocyclinidae