Comen (BMNH 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 JurkovÅ¡ek 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

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: P. C. Goody. 1969. The relationships of certain Upper Cretaceous teleosts with special reference to the Myctophoids. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology Supplement 7:1-255 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 221905: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.08.2021

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Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Aulopiformes - Dercetidae
Rhynchodercetis gortanii d'Erasmo 1946
BMNH P.10913