Breznik area, Upper Kimmeridgian Substage–Tithonian Stage (Jurassic to of Bulgaria)

Where: Bulgaria (42.7° N, 22.9° E: paleocoordinates 24.5° N, 25.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 145.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; packstone and grainstone

• Mobile rimmed platform
• Peloidal-bioclastic packstones to grainstones with chert nodules

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: D. Ivanova, B. Kolodziej, E. Koleva- Rekalova and E. Roniewicz. 2008. Oxfordian to Valanginian palaeoenvironmental evolution on the western Moesian Carbonate Platform: a case study from SW Bulgaria. Annales Societatis Geologiorum Poloniae 78:65-90 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 151486: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 04.10.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Discorbidae
Foraminifera
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Protopeneroplis striata Weynschenck 1950
Siphovalvulina variabilis Septfontaine 1988
 Textulariina - Pfenderinidae
 Loftusiacea - Mesoendothyridae
 Loftusiacea - Cyclamminidae
 Textulariina - Paravalvulinidae
Redmondoides lugeoni Septfontaine 1977
 Textulariina - Orbitopsellidae
 Involutinina - Trocholinidae
Protozoa
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Crinoidea
 Roveacrinida - Saccocomidae
Saccocoma sp. Agassiz 1836 Sea lily
 Life - Stomiosphaeridae