Where: Bulgaria (43.6° N, 22.7° E: paleocoordinates 24.7° N, 26.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Polaten Formation, Early/Lower Bathonian to Early/Lower Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• Brachiopod zone: Acanthothiris spinosa with one thanatocoenosis Cererithyris intermedia

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. V. Tchoumatchenco. 1993. Brachiopod thanatocoenoses in the Aalenian, Bajocian and Bathonian of western Bulgaria and their distribution. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 100:159-168 [W. Kiessling/M. Nimke/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87461: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Madeleine Nimke on 18.03.2009

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