Also known as Reef 2736
Where: Bulgaria (42.8° N, 22.9° E: paleocoordinates 27.1° N, 21.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• Original age assigment Maastrichtian. Revised by Swinburne et al. (Cret. Res. 13, 1992) based on Sr isotopes and larger foraminifers
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, sandy limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: V. L. Tchechmedjieva. 1986. Paleoecologie des Madreporaires du Cretace superieur dans le Srednogorie de l'Ouest (Bulgarie occidentale) (Paleoecology of Upper Cretaceous scleractinians from the Western Sredna Gora (Western Bulgaria)]. Geologica Balcanica 16(5):55-81 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 67576: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.11.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Pachyphyllia toucasi de Fromentel 1884 stony coral | |
Koilomorpha ataciana stony coral | |
"Brachycoenia leptophylla" = Brachymeandra leptophylla
"Brachycoenia leptophylla" = Brachymeandra leptophylla Reuss 1854 stony coral | |
Acrosmilia conica d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral | |
"Pachycoenia corbariensis" = Heterocoenia
"Pachycoenia corbariensis" = Heterocoenia stony coral | |
Paraplacocoenia rotula Goldfuss 1826 stony coral | |
"Meandroria radiata" = Dictuophyllia, "Meandroria pyrenaica" = Dictuophyllia, "Meandroria dumortieri" = Dictuophyllia
"Meandroria radiata" = Dictuophyllia stony coral
"Meandroria pyrenaica" = Dictuophyllia stony coral
"Meandroria dumortieri" = Dictuophyllia stony coral | |
Corbariastraea rennensis Alloiteau 1952 stony coral | |
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Pecten sp. Müller 1776 scallop | |
"Hippuritoida indet." = Hippuritida
"Hippuritoida indet." = Hippuritida Newell 1965 rudist | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail |