Dolenja Vas, Bed 37 (Paleocene of Slovenia)

Where: Slovenia (45.7° N, 14.0° E: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 13.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• bed 37

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified packstone

• algal-foraminiferal packstone with intraclasts and recrystalised corals

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: K. Drobne, B. Ogorelec, M. Plenicar, M. L. Zucchi-Stolfa, and D. Turnsek. 1988. Maastrichtian, Danian and Thanetian beds in Dolenja Vas (NW Dinarides, Yugoslavia), microfacies foraminifers, rudists and corals. Razprave Slovenska Akademija Znanosti in Umetnosti, Razred za Naravoslovne Vede 29(6):147-224 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79272: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Fabulariidae
Periloculina cf. slovenica
 Miliolida - Alveolinidae
Alveolinidae indet.
Alveolinidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
new genus
 Thaumatoporellales -
Thaumatoporella sp.
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Polyphysaceae
Clypeina sp.
Clypeina sp. Michelin 1845
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Parkerella sp., Cymopolia sp.
Parkerella sp. Morellet and Morellet 1922
Cymopolia sp. Lamouroux 1816
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Dendrophyllia dendrophylloides, Dendrophyllia candelabrum
Dendrophyllia dendrophylloides Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Dendrophyllia candelabrum Henning 1899 stony coral