Where: Slovenia, Slovenia (45.7° N, 14.0° E: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 12.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Trstelj Formation), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)
• Corresponding to the Operculina limestones of Pavlovec (1963) and to the upper part of the Miliolid Limestone of Stache (1889). Based on the associated larger foraminifera the age of this collection correspond to the SBZ 4 (Late Thanetian)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: slope or ramp reef; lithified, tabular reef rocks
•Čebulovica mounds represents either a superposition of several incipient mounds overlain by the foralgal facies or a lateral mound facies representing a transition between the mound core and the lateral deposits.
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: recrystallized, original aragonite, replaced with calcite
Collection methods: bulk, peel or thin section,
Primary reference: J. Zamagni, A. Kosir, and M. Mutti. 2009. The first microbialite-coral mounds in the Cenozoic (Uppermost Paleocene) from the Northern Tethys (Slovenia): Environmentally-triggered phase shifts preceding the PETM?. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 274(1-2):1-17 [W. Kiessling/J. Zamagni/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 80827: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Jessica Zamagni on 14.05.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Rhizangia padricensis Turnsek 1998 stony coral | |
Oculina conferta Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral | |
Goniopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral | |
Actinacis cognata, "Goniopora hrpeljensis" = Elephantaria lindstroemi
Actinacis cognata Oppenheim 1901 stony coral
"Goniopora hrpeljensis" = Elephantaria lindstroemi Oppenheim 1930 stony coral | |
Stylocoenia neutra Barta-Calmus 1973 stony coral
Astrocoenia gibbosa Duncan 1880 stony coral | |
Bacarella vipavica Turnsek and Kosir 2004 stony coral | |
Dendrophyllia sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Dendrophyllia candelabrum Henning 1899 stony coral |