Protopopinci, Pirot area, Brachiopod Beds (Jurassic of Serbia and Montenegro)

Where: Serbia and Montenegro (43.1° N, 22.9° E: paleocoordinates 23.2° N, 25.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• "Brachiopod Beds"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• sandy limestones and marly sandstones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Jankicevic, D. Rabrenovic, and V. Radulovic. 1983. Stratigrafske i paleontoloshke karakteristike Lijasa u Zabrdju (Stara Planina) [Stratigraphic and palaeontological characteristics of the Liassic of Zabrde (Stara Planina)]. Geoloski Anali Balkanskoga Poluostrva 47:161-182 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 73325: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Liparoceratidae
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Pennospiriferinidae
"Spiriferina verrucosa" = Callospiriferina verrucosa
"Spiriferina verrucosa" = Callospiriferina verrucosa von Buch 1830
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
"Tetrarhynchia tetraedra" = Tetrarhynchia tetrahedra Sowerby 1812
"Rostrirhynchia boeckhi" = Tetrarhynchia (Rostrirhynchia)
Gibbirhynchia curviceps Quenstedt 1852
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
 Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
 Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
"Serbiothyris andleri" = Inaequalis, "Pyraeneica ariegensis" = Inaequalis, "Lobothyris punctata" = Lobothyris punctata, "Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata
"Serbiothyris andleri" = Inaequalis
"Pyraeneica ariegensis" = Inaequalis
"Lobothyris punctata" = Lobothyris punctata Sowerby 1812
"Lobothyris subpunctata" = Lobothyris punctata Sowerby 1812
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
"Zeilleria numismalis" = Cincta numismalis, "Zeilleria cornuta" = Zeilleria quadrifida, Zeilleria subnumismalis
"Zeilleria numismalis" = Cincta numismalis Lamarck 1819
"Zeilleria cornuta" = Zeilleria quadrifida Lamarck 1819
Zeilleria subnumismalis Davidson 1851