Merice, Bratislava (Miocene of Slovakia)

Where: Slovakia (48.2° N, 17.0° E: paleocoordinates 47.7° N, 16.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Badenian (13.7 - 12.7 Ma)

• Upper Badenian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone and lithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Svagrovsky. 1981. Lithofazielle Entwicklung und Molluskenfauna des oberen Badeniens (Miozän M4d) in dem Gebiet Bratislava-Devinska Nova Ves [Lithofacies and mollusc fauna of the Upper Badenian in the Bratislava-Devinska Nova Ves area]. Zapadne Karpaty, Seria Paleontologia 7:5-204 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 73141: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
"Turbonilla (Pyrgolampros) scala" = Pyrgolampros snail
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Bittium (Bittium) reticulatum Montagu 1803 cerith snail
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
"Hinia (Uzita) cf. rosthorni" = Nassarius (Uzita), "Hinia (Hinia) illovensis" = Nassarius (Hinia)
"Hinia (Uzita) cf. rosthorni" = Nassarius (Uzita) snail
"Hinia (Hinia) illovensis" = Nassarius (Hinia) snail
 Neogastropoda - Mangeliidae
 Neogastropoda - Clavatulidae
Clavatula (Clavatula) interrupta snail
subsp. sophiae
 Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae
Alvania (Alvania) montagui snail
subsp. miocaenica
Alvania (Alvania) oceani d'Orbigny 1852 snail
 Trochoidea - Phasianellidae
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Nuculana (Saccella) fragilis" = Saccella
"Nuculana (Saccella) fragilis" = Saccella pointed nut clam
 Arcida - Arcidae