Knazia (Paleocene to of Slovakia)

Where: Zilina, Slovakia (49.2° N, 19.3° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 39.5° N, 23.9° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Puch Formation, Late/Upper Paleocene to Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 48.6 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified, sandy limestone and lithified, calcareous sandstone

• described as "forereef detrital limestone"
• Variegated marls and marl with calcareous sandstone and sandy limestone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: Ervin Scheibner

Primary reference: E. Scheibner. 1968. Contribution to the knowledge of the Palaeogene reef-complexes of the Myjava-Hricov-Haligovka Zone (West Carpathians). Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Histor. Geologie 8:67-97more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 237419: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Keenan Hassell on 09.12.2024

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales -
Foraminifera
 Lituolacea - Haplophragmoiidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Hauerinidae
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
unclassified
  -
Globothalamea
 Loftusiida - Acervulinidae
Foraminifera
 Nummulitacea - Discocyclinidae
unclassified
  -
Anthozoa
 Helioporacea -
Epiphaxum sp. Lonsdale 1850
Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales -
Acicularia sp. d'Archiac 1843
 Dasycladales - Diploporaceae
Diplopora sp. Schafhaeutl 1863
Gyrogonites
  -
Gyrogonites sp. Lamarck 1804
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Hauerinidae
Quinqueloculina polygona d'Orbigny 1839
Triloculina trigonula Lamarck 1804
 Miliolida - Nubeculariidae
Foraminifera
 Globigerinoidea - Globigerinidae
Globigerina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
 Lituolacea - Haplophragmoiidae
Placopsilina sp. d'Orbigny 1850
 Rotaliacea - Pellatispiridae
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
Rotalia sp. Lamarck 1804
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Florideophyceae
 Peyssonneliales - Rhodymeniophycidae
"Pseudolithothamnium album" = Polystrata alba
"Pseudolithothamnium album" = Polystrata alba Pfender 1936
  - Corallinophycidae
Distichoplax biserialis Dieterich 1927
Jania nummulitica Lemoine 1927