Benedikt: Sarmatian, Slovenia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea
Balaenoptera cuvierii (Fischer 1829)
Pavsic * Mikuz entered this species as Balaenoptera acutorostrata cuvieri, but since PBDB doesn't track subspecies, it is entered here as Balaenoptera cuvierii so it is tracked properly by the systematics module
    = Thalassotherii indet. Bisconti et al. 2013
Bisconti and Bosselaers 2020
Coccolithophyceae
Lanternithus minutus Stradner 1962
Discoaster variabilis Martini and Bramlette 1963
Coccolithophyceae - Braarudosphaeraceae
Braarudosphaera sp. Deflandre 1947
Coccolithophyceae
Pontosphaera multipora Roth 1970
Coccolithus pelagicus (Wallich 1877)
Sphenolithus abies Deflandre 1954
Sphenolithus heteromorphus Deflandre 1953
Cyclicargolithus floridanus (Roth and Hay 1967)
Coccolithophyceae - Eiffellithales - Eiffellithaceae
Eiffellithus turriseiffelii (Deflandre 1954)
unclassified
Helicosphaera carteri (Wallich 1877)
Coccosphaerales - Calcidiscaceae
Calcidiscus leptoporus (Murray and Blackman 1898)
Coccolithacea
Toweius eminens (Bramlette and Sullivan 1961)
original and current combination Coccolithus eminens
see common names

Geography
Country:Slovenia
Coordinates: 46.6° North, 15.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.2° North, 15.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Serravallian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Sarmatian
Age range of interval:12.80000 - 11.63000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Sarmatian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandy marl
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: sandy marl bed
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original phosphate
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:55454
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen
Created:2005-10-25 14:14:58 Last modified:2008-08-19 10:26:48
Access level:the public Released:2005-10-25 14:14:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

14958. J. Pavsic and V. Mikuz. 1996. The baleen whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata cuvierii) from Miocene beds near Benedikt in Slovenske Gorice, Slovenia. Razprave 37(4):85-97 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

73428 M. Bisconti and M. E. J. Bosselaers. 2020. A new balaenopterid species from the Southern North Sea Basin informs about phylogeny and taxonomy of Burtinopsis and Protororqualus (Cetacea, Mysticeti, Balaenopteridae). PeerJ 8(e9570):1-47 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]