Gradesica (Lower Pelsonian) (Triassic of Serbia and Montenegro)

Where: Serbia and Montenegro (43.1° N, 22.9° E: paleocoordinates 3.8° S, 30.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pelsonian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, nodular, shelly/skeletal, black lime mudstone

• black, nodular bedded or platy micrites and microsparites abounding in brachiopods

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva

Primary reference: D. Urosevic, V. Radulovic, and L. Pesic. 1992. Middle Triassic (Anisian) Brachiopods From the Yugoslavian Carpatho-Balkanides. Revue de Paleobiologie 11(2):469-481 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157944: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 11.07.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Gondolellidae
Paragondolella bulgarica Budurov and Stefanov 1975 conodont
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma striatum Schlotheim 1820 file clam
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Austrirhynchidae
 Athyridida - Diplospirellidae
Tetractinella trigonella Schlotheim 1820
 Spiriferinida - Pennospiriferinidae
Punctospirella fragilis Schlotheim 1814
 Spiriferinida - Mentzeliidae
Mentzelia mentzeli Dunker 1851
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Silesiathyris angusta Schlotheim 1820
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Coenothyris vulgaris Schlotheim 1820