Soko Banja area (Cretaceous of Serbia and Montenegro)

Where: Serbia and Montenegro (43.6° N, 21.9° E: paleocoordinates 27.8° N, 21.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

• breccia

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 79226: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Helioporacea -
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
Actinastrea remesi stony coral
Actinastrea ramosa Sowerby 1832 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Haplaraeidae
Astraraea media Sowerby 1832 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Phyllocoeniidae
Reussicoenia edwardsi Reuss 1854 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Placocoeniidae
Placocoenia microcalix, "Neocoeniopsis lepida" = Neocoenia lepida, "Placocoenia dumortieri" = Paraplacocoenia rotula, Astrogyra voraccissima
"Neocoeniopsis lepida" = Neocoenia lepida Reuss 1854 stony coral
"Placocoenia dumortieri" = Paraplacocoenia rotula Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Hydnophora styriaca Michelin 1847 stony coral
"Meandroria konincki" = Dictuophyllia konincki Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral
and subsp. typica
 Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
Psilogyra telleri Felix 1903 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Heterocoeniidae
Heterocoenia exigua Michelin 1846 stony coral