Mala Cuka Borehole in eastern Serbia, Bed 7 (Jurassic of Serbia and Montenegro)

Where: Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro (43.8° N, 22.4° E: paleocoordinates 24.9° N, 26.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Vrska Cuka Formation, Bajocian (170.3 - 168.3 Ma)

• Bed 7 has a thickness of 98.30m

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, sandy limestone

• Shallow-sea beds.
• Coarse- and fine-grained sandy limestones.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: V. Radulovic, D. Boskovic, and D. Rabrenovic. 1997. O dogerskoj (alenskoj) starosti povlate ugljy Vrshke Chuke, istochna Srbija. On the Dogger (Aalenian) age of the Vrska Cuka Coal Overbed, Eastern Serbia. Geoloski Anali Balkanskoga Poluostrva 61(2):139-151 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51555: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 08.06.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Gervillella aviculoides Sowerby 1814 oyster
Gervillella lanceolata Muenster 1826 oyster
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam