Sopot near Temska (Cretaceous to of Serbia and Montenegro)

Where: Serbia and Montenegro (43.2° N, 22.6° E: paleocoordinates 23.3° N, 25.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Barremian to Barremian (129.4 - 122.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

• sandy brown and yellowish limestones; maybe redeposited from shelf margin reef

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: D. Turnsek and M. Mihajlovic. 1981. Lower Cretaceous cnidarians from eastern Serbia. Razprave, Slovenska Akademija Znanosti in Umetnosti, IV Razred za Prirodoslovne Vede 23(1):1-54 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74795: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.08.2007, edited by Madeleine Nimke

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Actinacididae
"Thamnaraea sp." = Thamnarea
"Thamnaraea sp." = Thamnarea Etallon 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Eugyridae
Eugyra lanckoronensis Morycowa 1964 stony coral
"Eohydnophora picteti" = Eugyra (Felixigyra) picteti Koby 1897 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Meandroria pirotensis" = Dictuophyllia pirotensis
"Meandroria pirotensis" = Dictuophyllia pirotensis Toula 1884 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Smilotrochus tuberosus Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Cyathophoridae
"Cryptocoenia aff. pygmaea" = Cryptocoenia fontserei
"Cryptocoenia aff. pygmaea" = Cryptocoenia fontserei Bataller 1947 stony coral