Gaganitsa, Z. quadrifida zone: Pliensbachian, Bulgaria

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
Lobothyris edwardsii
Lobothyris subpunctata (Davidson 1851)
synonym of Lobothyris punctata
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Zeilleria sarthacensis (d'Orbigny 1850)
Zeilleria quadrifida (Lamarck 1819)
Zeilleria subnumismalis (Davidson 1851)
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
Liospiriferina alpina (Oppel 1861)
subsp. falloti
Spiriferina ascendens
see common names

Geography
Country:Bulgaria
Coordinates: 43.3° North, 23.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:23.3° North, 25.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Pliensbachian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 2
Key time interval:Pliensbachian
Age range of interval:192.90000 - 184.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Zeilleria quadrifida zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Geology comments: agitated sublittoral biotope
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:106903
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:A. Khan Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-03-29 21:01:18 Last modified:2013-08-20 16:50:50
Access level:the public Released:2011-03-29 21:01:18
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]