Menina Planina, Kamnik-Savinja Alps (Triassic of Slovenia)

Also known as Reef 149

Where: Slovenia (46.3° N, 14.8° E: paleocoordinates 11.9° N, 21.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)

• Lower Carnian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone and lithified, dolomitic limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: A. Ramovs. 1992. Cordevolski greben na Menini [The Cordevolian reef on the Menina, Kamnik-Savinja Alps, Slovenia]. Geologija 35:73-80 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67628: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.11.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ladinella porata
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Plexoramea cerebriformis
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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Margarophylliidae
Margarophyllia capitata Münster 1841 stony coral
Margarosmilia septanectens Loretz 1875 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Tropiastreidae
Tropidendron rhopalifer Cuif 1975 stony coral
Demospongiae
 Hadromerida - Celyphiidae
Alpinothalamia slovenica Senowbari-Daryan 1982 demosponge
 Agelasida - Solenolmiidae
Solenolmia manon Münster 1841 demosponge