Tupiznica-Tepos area (Cretaceous of Serbia and Montenegro)

Where: Serbia and Montenegro (43.7° N, 22.2° E: paleocoordinates 23.0° N, 24.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified sandstone and lithified limestone

• coarse-grained sandstones and bioclastic limestones

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: J. Jankicevic. 1979. L'Urgonien de la partie mediane des Carpatho-Balkanides Yougoslaves (Serbie Orientale) [The Urgonian of the middle part of the Yugoslavian Carpatho-Balkanid area (East Serbia)]. Geobios, Memoire Special 3:177-182 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67546: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.11.2006

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Orbitolinacea - Orbitolinidae
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Eugyridae
Eugyra digitata Koby 1896 stony coral
Eugyra neocomiensis Fromentel 1857 stony coral
Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Toxasteridae
Heteraster oblongus Brogniart 1821 heart urchin
 Stomopneustoida - Stomechinidae
Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panopea plicata Sowerby 1829 clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Sphaera corrugata Sowerby 1822 clam
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula placunea Lamarck 1819 scallop
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
"Gervillia alaeformis" = Gervillaria alaeformis
"Gervillia alaeformis" = Gervillaria alaeformis Sowerby 1819 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Alectryonia rectangularis" = Ostrea (Alectryonia), Exogyra aquila
"Alectryonia rectangularis" = Ostrea (Alectryonia) oyster
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
"Turbo munitus" = Hanaispira munitus
"Turbo munitus" = Hanaispira munitus Forbes 1845 snail
 Heterostropha - Nerineidae
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Deshayesitidae
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae