Uz Cestu Road Section, Velebit Mountains (Permian of Croatia)

Where: Croatia (44.5° N, 15.2° E: paleocoordinates 2.8° S, 26.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Neoschwagerina craticulifera foram zone, Neoschwagerina Beds Formation, Roadian (272.3 - 268.8 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, black limestone

• reef-type communities
• Black limestone stated in text and shown on geologic map in Fig. 1.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. Salopek in 1935-1938

• Dominated by brachiopods that attached with a pedicle and attached by cementation (always in separate stratum).

Primary reference: J. Sremac. 1986. Middle Permian brachiopods from the Velebit Mts. (Croatia, Yogoslavia). Palaeontologia Jugoslavica 35:1-43 [T. Olszewski/L. Fall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62291: authorized by Tom Olszewski, entered by Leigh Fall on 17.07.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Martiniidae
Martinia velebitica Sremac 1986
Strophomenata
 Productida - Lyttoniidae
Leptodus nobilis Waagen 1883