Komshtitsa (Jurassic to of Bulgaria)

Where: Bulgaria (43.1° N, 23.0° E: paleocoordinates 23.1° N, 23.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Hettangian to Late/Upper Hettangian (201.3 - 189.6 Ma)

• Spiriferina walcotti zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: P. Tchoumatchenco. 1996. Zonation and paleoecological distribution of Bulgarian Jurassic brachiopods. In P. Copper, J. Jin (eds.), Brachiopods 269-274 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106899: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.03.2011

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Gibbirhynchia sp. Buckman 1917
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
"Zeilleria indentata" = Zeilleria (Zeilleria) indentata
"Zeilleria indentata" = Zeilleria (Zeilleria) indentata Sowerby 1824
subsp. quiaoisensis
 Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae