Breznik area, Berriasian Stage (Cretaceous of Bulgaria)

Where: Bulgaria (42.7° N, 22.9° E: paleocoordinates 24.4° N, 25.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

• Reefs and peri-reefs limestone

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 151487: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 04.10.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Lituolacea - Nautiloculinidae
Nautiloculina bronnimanni Arnaud-Vanneau and Peybernes 1978
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 Biokovinacea - Charentiidae
Charentia cuvillieri Neumann 1965
 Involutinina - Trocholinidae
Trocholina sp. Paalzow 1922
 Lituolida - Haplophragmoididae
 Fusulinina - Earlandiidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Hauerinidae
 Miliolida - Nubeculariidae
Hechtina praeantiqua Bartenstein and Brand 1949