Where: Bulgaria (42.7° N, 23.3° E: paleocoordinates 2.9° S, 29.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Radomir Formation, Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)
• Ladian brachiopod assemblages are geographically restricted and isolated from one another, which makes biostratigraphic correlation difficult. Within the lower part of the Costispiriferina bittneri - Lima cf inaequistriata Assemblage Zone in the Piarorhynchella trinodosi Abundance Subzone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: S. Benatov. 2001. Brachiopod biostratigraphy of the Middle Triassic in Bulgaria and comparison with elsewhere in Europe. In C. Howard, C. Brunton, L. R. M. Cocks, S. L. Long (eds.), Brachiopods Past and Present 63:384-393 [D. Bottjer/N. Bonuso/S. Bruning]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 44919: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Nicole Bonuso on 20.09.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Posidonia sp. Bronn 1828 oyster | |
Chlamys schroeteri scallop | |
Enantiostreon sp. Bittner 1901 scallop | |
Cephalopoda | |
Norites sp. Mojsisovics 1869 ceratite | |
Paraceratites trinodosus von Mojsisovics 1878 ceratite | |
Hungarites sp. Mojsisovics 1879 ceratite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Piarorhynchella trinodosi" = Nudirostralina trinodosi
"Piarorhynchella trinodosi" = Nudirostralina trinodosi Bittner 1890 |