Cebulovica (Paleocene of Slovenia)

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

• Distal mid-ramp setting affected by storms and currents, likely periodically exposed to enhanced turbidity and nutrient levels
• the microbial-coral carbonates form massive metric-thick mounds (up to 6 m thick) exposed over a length of 70 m, alternated to foralgal packstones and wackestones.

•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

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Taxonomic list

• Derminations done by D.Turnsek from ZRC SAZU, Lubljana
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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Rhizangiidae
Rhizangia padricensis
Rhizangia padricensis Turnsek 1998 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Oculinidae
Oculina conferta
Oculina conferta Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Goniopora sp.
Goniopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinacididae
Actinacis cognata, "Goniopora hrpeljensis" = Elephantaria lindstroemi
Actinacis cognata Oppenheim 1901 stony coral
"Goniopora hrpeljensis" = Elephantaria lindstroemi Oppenheim 1930 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Astrocoeniidae
Stylocoenia neutra, Astrocoenia gibbosa
Stylocoenia neutra Barta-Calmus 1973 stony coral
Astrocoenia gibbosa Duncan 1880 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Bacarella vipavica
Bacarella vipavica Turnsek and Kosir 2004 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Dendrophyllia sp., Dendrophyllia candelabrum
Dendrophyllia sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
Dendrophyllia candelabrum Henning 1899 stony coral