Where: Slovenia, Slovenia (45.6° N, 14.0° E: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 12.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Member (Trstelj Formation), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• Based on the foraminiferal assemblage this collection has an age corresponding to SBZ 4 (Late Thanetian)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, tabular floatstone

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 80832: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Jessica Zamagni on 14.05.2008

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