Butkov Quarry, 11th level, 26 m, Central Western Carpathians (Cretaceous of Slovakia)

Where: Slovakia (49.0° N, 18.3° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 25.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ladce Formation, Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• 11th level: transitional beds of uppermost Ladce and Mraznica Formations; Furcillata ammonite zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified limestone

• hemipelagic
• brown-yellow slightly marly limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Z. Vasicek. 2005. The oldest (Late Valanginian) Crioceratitinae (heteromorphic ammonoids) from the Central Western Carpathians (Slovakia). Geologica Carpathica 56(3):245-254 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64708: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phylloceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
Crioceratites coniferus Busnardo 2003 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Criosarasinella mandovi Thieuloy 1977 ammonite
Criosarasinella furcillata Thieuloy 1977 ammonite
"Teschenites ex gr. subpachydicranus" = Neocomites (Teschenites) subpachydicranus Reboulet 1996 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Haploceratidae
Neolissoceras grasianum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Himantoceratidae
Himantoceras trinodosum Thieuloy 1965 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
"Olcostephanus nicklesi" = Olcostephanus (Olcostephanus) nicklesi
"Olcostephanus nicklesi" = Olcostephanus (Olcostephanus) nicklesi Wiedmann and Dieni 1968 ammonite
subspecies thieuloyi