Mezica Mine, Karavanke Mts (Triassic of Slovenia)

Where: Slovenia (46.5° N, 141.9° E: paleocoordinates 46.5° N, 141.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: "Raibl" Group, Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• also known as the 'Cardita Shales" or 'Raibl Beds". Fossils are from the first clastic layer in this otherwise carbonate-dominated sequence

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; shale

• Shell pavement in the first (oldest) clastic sequence of shale and marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: A. Kaim, B. Jurkovsek, and T. Kolar-Jurkovsek. 2006. New associations of Carnian gastropods from Mezica region in the Karavanke Mountains of Slovenia. Facies 52:469-482 [D. Bottjer/C. Powers]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63527: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Catherine Powers on 15.08.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Caenogastropoda - Coelostylinidae
Helenostylina mezicaensis n. gen. n. sp. snail