Radensko polje, unit 3 - Lithiotis Limestones (Jurassic of Slovenia)

Where: Slovenia (45.9° N, 14.7° E: paleocoordinates 30.8° N, 21.2° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• Domerian stage

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; gray limestone

• Limestones are grey, dark grey, dark brownish grey to grayish black, thick-bedded micrites (mudstones), biomicrites (wackstones) or biosparites (packstones, grainstones). Intermediate beds between lumachelles belong to biosparitic, biomicritic and biointrasparitic limestones. Some lithiotid and intermediate coarse-grained beds are more or less late diagenetically dolomitized. The considered limestones are medium to thick-bedded. Various textural types of limestones alternate rapidly having in spots interbeds of coarse-grained dolomite. Very rarely they are fine-laminated or even poorly

•stromatolitic.

• Limestones with rock-building shells of Lithiotidae bivalves

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: S. Dozet. 2009. Lower Jurassic carbonate succession between Predole and Mlačevo, Central Slovenia. Materials and Geoenvironment 56(2):164-193 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 146867: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 01.07.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Palaeodasycladus mediterraneus
Foraminifera
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Amijiella amiji
 Loftusiacea - Cyclamminidae
Pseudocyclammina liassica
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Plicatostylidae
Cochlearites loppianus
 Pterioida -
Lithioperna scutata