Comen (Trieste Museum collection) (Cretaceous of Slovenia)

Also known as Komen

Where: Slovenia (45.8° N, 13.8° E: paleocoordinates 28.3° N, 14.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Povir Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Platy limestones are a facies that occur throughout the succession, but the large majority of historical fish collections come from the Cenomanian part (Cavin et al., 2000), the Povir Formation of Jurkovšek et al. (2016).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified lime mudstone

• Restricted interplatform basins, according to Palci et al. (2008)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Civico Museo di Storia Naturale di Trieste (Tršćanskom Maximilijanskom Muzeju, Museo Tergestico Regis Maximiliani)

Primary reference: D. Gorjanović-Kramberger. 1895. Fosilne ribe Komena, Mrzleka, Hvara i M. Libanona uz dodatak o Oligocenskim ribama Tüffera, Zagora i Trifalja. Djela Jugoslavenske Akademije Znanosti i Umjetnosti 16:1-67 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 221237: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.07.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Coelodus suillus Heckel 1856
Coelodus vetteri n. sp. Gorjanović-Kramberger 1895
 Beryciformes - Hoplopterygiidae
"Beryx stachei n. sp." = Hoplopteryx stachei
"Beryx stachei n. sp." = Hoplopteryx stachei Gorjanović-Kramberger 1895
 Beryciformes -
Lobopterus pectinatus n. sp. Gorjanović-Kramberger 1895
 Teleostei -
"Clupea gaudryi" = Scombroclupea gaudryi
"Clupea gaudryi" = Scombroclupea gaudryi Pictet and Humbert 1866
 Crossognathiformes - Pachyrhizodontidae
 Ichthyodectiformes - Bardackichthyidae
"Thrissops vexillifer" = Heckelichthys vexillifer
"Thrissops vexillifer" = Heckelichthys vexillifer Heckel 1856