South of Dobrevtzi (Cretaceous of Bulgaria)

Where: Bulgaria (43.1° N, 24.1° E: paleocoordinates 22.8° N, 26.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• Middle part of lower Barremian, in the base of the marls with spherical weathering, above the beds with Pseudothurmannia karakaschi and Acanthoptychoceras spinatocostatum.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified marl

• Thin-bedded marls

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: State Geological Museum, University of Sofia

Primary reference: J. R. Manolov. 1962. New ammonites from the Barremian of north Bulgaria. Palaeontology 5:527-539 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 161856: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Holcodiscidae
Holcodiscus caseyi n. sp. Manolov 1962 ammonite