Where: Slovakia (48.6° N, 17.6° E: paleocoordinates 29.8° N, 23.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sinemurian (199.3 - 190.8 Ma)

• semicostatum Zone; The outcrop exposes a sequence of about 170 cm thickness. consisting of eight beds of bioclastic, glauconite-bearing limestone. The fossils are from two beds approx. 80 cm and 95 cm above the base, respectively.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal packstone and lithified, shelly/skeletal reef rocks

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: collected in 1998 by M. Hornacek, J. Schlögl, and A. Tomasovych; specimens are deposited at the National Museum of Natural History in Bratislava

Primary reference: M. Hautmann and M. Golej. 2004. Terquemia (Dentiterquemia) eudesdeslongchampsi new subgenus and species, an interesting cementing bivalve from the Lower Jurassic of the western Carpathians (Slovakia). Journal of Paleontology 78(6):1090-1094 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68357: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 17.01.2007

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