Vrsatecke Podhradie, sample 8 (Cretaceous to of Slovakia)

Where: Slovakia (49.1° N, 18.2° E: paleocoordinates 39.3° N, 16.8° E)

When: Skalski Marl Member (Jaworki Formation), Early/Lower Turonian to Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; lithified limestone

• grey-red silicified limestones and silicified marly limestones

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: M. Sykora, L. Ozvoldova, and D. Boorova. 1997. Turonian silicified sediments in the Czorsztyn succession of the Pieniny Klippen Belt (Western Carpathians, Slovakia). Geologica Carpathica 48(4):243-261 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 95822: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.04.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Nassellaria - Eucyrtidiidae
Stichomitra communis Squinabol 1903 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Archaeodictyomitridae
Dictyomitra undata radiolarian
Dictyomitra montisserei Squinabol 1903 radiolarian
Dictyomitra multicostata Zittel 1876 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Amphipyndacidae
"Stichomitra stocki" = Amphipyndax stocki
"Stichomitra stocki" = Amphipyndax stocki Campbell and Clark 1944 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Carpocaniidae
Diacanthocapsa sp. Squinabol 1903 radiolarian
"Diacanthocapsa cf. brevithorax" = Theocapsomma brevithorax Dumitrica 1970 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Saturnalidae
Acanthocircus venetus Squinabol 1914 radiolarian
Acanthocircus tympanum O'Dogherty 1994 radiolarian
 Actinommacea - Xiphostylidae
? Archaeocenosphaera mellifera O'Dogherty 1994 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Praeconocaryommidae
Praeconocaryomma universa Pessagno 1976 radiolarian
Praeconocaryomma lipmanae Pessagno 1976 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Cavaspongiidae
Cavaspongia sp. Pessagno 1973 radiolarian
Cavaspongia antelopensis Pessagno 1973 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Sponguridae
Patellula "sp. B" Kozlova 1972 radiolarian
Patellula ecliptica O'Dogherty 1994 radiolarian
Patellula andrusovi n. sp. Ozvoldova 1997 radiolarian
Patellula cf. heroica O'Dogherty 1994 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Hagiastridae
Crucella cachensis Pessagno 1971 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Pseudoaulophacidae
Pseudoaulophacus putahensis Pessagno 1972 radiolarian