Karavelyovo (Jurassic of Bulgaria)

Where: Bulgaria (42.9° N, 27.2° E: paleocoordinates 21.2° N, 27.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Karavelyovo Formation, Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• Zeilleria quadrifida zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified marl

• alternating biodetrital limestones and marls

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 106907: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.03.2011

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Zeilleria quadrifida Lamarck 1819
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
Liospiriferina alpina Oppel 1861
subsp. alpina (3%) and falloti (32%)