Dolenja Vas, Bed 20 (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 20, Upper Danian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified packstone

Size class: macrofossils

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 79281: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.02.2008

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Goniopora imperatoris Vaughan 1919 stony coral