Stara Planina Mts.: Late/Upper Sinemurian - Early/Lower Pliensbachian, Bulgaria

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
Lobothyris subovoides
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Nucleatidae
Nucleata bodrakensis
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Zeilleria darwini (Eudes-Deslongchamps 1863)
recombined as Zeilleria (Zeilleria) darwini
Zeilleria numismalis (Lamarck 1819)
recombined as Cincta numismalis
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Homoeorhynchia prona (Oppel 1861)
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Prionorhynchiidae
Prionorhynchia cf. greppini (Oppel 1861)
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Gibbirhynchia amalthei (Quenstedt 1852)
see common names

Geography
Country:Bulgaria
Coordinates: 42.9° North, 26.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:21.4° North, 26.7° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Key time interval:Late/Upper Sinemurian - Early/Lower Pliensbachian
Age range of interval:199.50000 - 184.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Tetrarhynchia dunrobinensis zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Lithology description: olistolith
Environment:deep subtidal shelf
Geology comments: deepest part of the Matoride Basin shelf
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:106902
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:A. Khan Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-03-29 20:45:33 Last modified:2013-08-19 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2011-03-29 20:45:33
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

35662. P. Tchoumatchenco. 1996. Zonation and paleoecological distribution of Bulgarian Jurassic brachiopods. In P. Copper, J. Jin (eds.), Brachiopods 269-274 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]