Butkov Quarry, 11th level, P4, 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: Mraznica 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
• gray, spotted, marly limestones

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 64716: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Himantoceratidae
Himantoceras trinodosum Thieuloy 1965 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Holcodiscidae
Jeanthieuloyites sp. Cooper 1981 ammonite