Protopopinci, Pirot area, Belemnite-Gryphaea 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: Late/Upper Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• "Belemnite-Gryphaea Beds"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone and lithified marl

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 73330: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys textoria Schlotheim 1820 scallop
Pecten priscus Schlotheim 1820 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
"Lima antiquata" = Antiquilima antiquata Sowerby 1818 file clam
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula spinosa Sowerby 1819 scallop
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaea cymbium Lamarck 1819 oyster