Mt. Munella, bed 7, Mirdita zone, Puke: Aptian, Albania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Gorgonacea
Carpathoporella fontis
Nautiloculinidae
Nautiloculina oolithica
Cyclamminidae
Choffatella dicipiens
unclassified
Palaeodictyoconus arabicus
Chlorophyceae - Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Cylindroporella sugdeni Elliott 1957
Macroporella pygmea
Salpingoporella dinarica
Salpingoporella melitae
see common names

Geography
Country:Albania
Coordinates: 42.0° North, 20.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:22.8° North, 23.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Aptian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 3
Key time interval: Aptian
Age range of interval: 121.4 - 113 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:Mt. Munella Local bed:7
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: thick-bedded platform limestone with rare conglomeratic intercalations
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:mesofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:67438
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate,micropaleontology
Created:2006-11-20 07:05:26 Last modified:2006-11-20 09:05:27
Access level:the public Released:2006-11-20 07:05:22
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
19227. H. A. Kollmann and L. H. Peza. 1997. Diptyxis Oppenheim (Nerineacea, Gastropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Albania. On the distribution of the genus Diptyxis. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien, A 98:17-33 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]