Zukova Cove, Hvar (Cretaceous to of Croatia)

Also known as ZÌŒukova

Where: Splitsko-Dalmatinska, Croatia (43.2° N, 16.6° E: paleocoordinates 27.1° N, 15.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gornji Humac Formation, Late/Upper Turonian to Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 85.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; bioturbated lime mudstone and peloidal wackestone

• "Microfacies 'a' consists of wackestones, wackestone/packstones and packstones containing...algae...rudist bioclasts are rare...Microfacies 'b' consists of laminates composed of micritic pelletal/pelloidal and 'cryptalgal' laminae or LLH stromatolites (thin-bedded platform limestones)." [Footprints in microfacies 'b'.]

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected in 2005

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: A. Mezga, C. A. Meyer, B. C. Tesovic, Z. Bajraktarevic, and I. Gusic. 2006. The first record of dinosaurs in the Dalmatian part (Croatia) of the Adriatic-Dinaric carbonate platform (ADCP). Cretaceous Research 27:735-742 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 67618: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 28.11.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Nezazzata cf. simplex
Foraminifera
 Biokovinacea - Charentiidae
Moncharmontia compressa
 Fusulinina - Earlandiidae
Aeolisaccus kotori
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Pseudonummoloculina cf. heimi
 Loftusiacea - Cyclamminidae
Pseudocyclammina sphaeroidea
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Soritidae
Scandonea samnitica
 Thaumatoporellales -
Thaumatoporella parvovesiculifera
Reptilia
 Saurischia -
Titanosauria indet.
Titanosauria indet. Bonaparte and Coria 1993 sauropod
10 prints, wide-gauge