Mt. Munella, bed 2, Mirdita zone, Puke (Cretaceous to of Albania)

Where: Albania (42.0° N, 20.1° E: paleocoordinates 25.8° N, 22.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Berriasian to Berriasian (145.0 - 136.4 Ma)

• Middle Berriasian-Basal Valanginian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone and lithified sandstone

• flyschoid sediments consisting of alternating biocalcarenitic and turbiditic limestones and sandstones, green marls and subordinate breccias

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: H. A. Kollmann and L. H. Peza. 1997. Diptyxis Oppenheim (Nerineacea, Gastropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Albania. On the distribution of the genus Diptyxis. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien, A 98:17-33 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67435: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.11.2006

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