Fruska Gora (Cretaceous of Serbia and Montenegro)

Where: Serbia and Montenegro (45.2° N, 19.7° E: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 18.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. Turnsek. 1992. Tethyan Cretaceous corals in Yugoslavia. in H. A. Kollmann and H. Zapfe, eds., New aspects on Tethyan Cretaceous fossil assemblages, Schriftenreihe der Erdwissenschaftlichen Kommissionen 9:155-170 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79222: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Placocoeniidae
"Placocoenia dumortieri" = Paraplacocoenia rotula
"Placocoenia dumortieri" = Paraplacocoenia rotula Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
"Rennensismilia didyma" = Rennensismilia complanata, "Rennensismilia chondrophora" = Rennensismilia inflexa
"Rennensismilia didyma" = Rennensismilia complanata Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
"Rennensismilia chondrophora" = Rennensismilia inflexa Reuss 1854 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
"Phragmosmilia psecadiophora" = Placosmilia sinuosa
"Phragmosmilia psecadiophora" = Placosmilia sinuosa Reuss 1854 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Cunnolitidae
Cunnolites polymorphus Goldfuss 1826 stony coral