Smarna Gora (Triassic of Slovenia)

Where: Slovenia (46.1° N, 14.5° E: paleocoordinates 4.8° N, 24.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Illyrian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• Late Illyrian or earliest Ladinian Neogondolella mesotriassica conodont zone and Spongosilicarmiger transitus radiolarian zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified limestone

• dark red thin-bedded limestone and marly limestone alternating with some millimeter to centimeter thick marls, with some dark red chert nodules, 1.60 m thick

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: A. Ramovs and S. Gorican. 1995. Late Anisian-Early Ladinian radiolarians and conodonts from Smarna Gora near Ljubljana, Slovenia. Razprave Slovenska Akademija Znanosti in Umetnosti, Razred za Naravoslovne Vede 36(9):179-221 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96051: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.05.2010

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Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Entactinaria - Thalassothamnidae
Triassothamnus verticillatus Dumitrica 1980 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Pentactinocarpidae
Pentactinorbis dumitricai Kozur and Mostler 1994 radiolarian
Pentactinocapsa awaensis Nakaseko and Nishimura 1979 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Hindeosphaeridae
Pseudostylosphaera japonica Nakaseko and Nishimura 1979 radiolarian
Pseudostylosphaera tenuis Nakaseko and Nishimura 1979 radiolarian
Pseudostylosphaera longispinosa Kozur and Mostler 1981 radiolarian
Pseudostylosphaera coccostyla Ruest 1892 radiolarian
Parasepsagon asymmetricus Bragin 2007 radiolarian
subsp. praetetracanthus
Parasepsagon variabilis Nakaseko and Nishimura 1979 radiolarian
? Hindeosphaera spinulosa Nakaseko and Nishimura 1979 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Multiarcusellidae
Tiborella magnidentata Dumitrica et al. 1980 radiolarian
Tiborella florida Nakaseko and Nishimura 1979 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Eptingiidae
Eptingium "sp. A" Dumitrica 1978 radiolarian
Eptingium nakasekoi Kozur and Mostler 1994 radiolarian
Eptingium manfredi Dumitrica 1978 radiolarian
Cryptostephanidium japonicum Nakaseko and Nishimura 1979 radiolarian
Cryptostephanidium cornigerum Dumitrica 1978 radiolarian
Cryptostephanidium longispinosum Sashida 1991 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Palaeoscenidiidae
Parentactinia lata Kozur and Mostler 1994 radiolarian
Parentactinia pugnax Dumitrica 1978 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Heptacladidae
? Pseudosepsagon aff. illyricus Kozur and Mostler 1994 radiolarian
? Pseudosepsagon emonaensis n. sp. Ramovs and Gorican 1995 radiolarian
Pseudosepsagon pentaspinosus Kozur and Mostler 1994 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Archaeosemantidae
Tandarnia recoarensis Dumitrica 1982 radiolarian
Archaeosemantis cristianensis Dumitrica 1982 radiolarian
Archaeosemantis pterostephanus Dumitrica 1978 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Ruesticyrtiidae
Triassocampe deweveri Nakaseko and Nishimura 1979 radiolarian
? Pararuesticyrtium sp. Kozur and Mostler 1981 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Poulpidae
Hozmadia "sp. A" Dumitrica et al. 1980 radiolarian
Hozmadia rotunda Nakaseko and Nishimura 1979 radiolarian
Hozmadia reticulata Dumitrica et al. 1980 radiolarian
Triassobipedis balatonica Kozur 1984 radiolarian
Eonapora robusta Kozur and Mostler 1981 radiolarian
Eonapora mesotriassica Kozur and Mostler 1981 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Spongolophophenidae
Triassospongocyrtis longispinosa Kozur and Mostler 1994 radiolarian
Triassospongocyrtis yaoi Kozur and Mostler 1994 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Cuniculiformidae
Goestlingella illyrica Kozur 1984 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Spongosilicarmigeridae
Spongosilicarmiger scabiturritus Sugiyama 1992 radiolarian
Spongosilicarmiger italicus Kozur 1984 radiolarian
subsp. transitus
 Nassellaria - Ultranaporidae
Hinedorcus alatus Dumitrica et al. 1980 radiolarian
Silicarmiger costatus Dumitrica et al. 1980 radiolarian
subsp. anisicus
 Spumellaria - Archaeospongoprunidae
Archaeospongoprunum bispinosum Kozur and Mostler 1981 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Oertlispongidae
Paroertlispongus rarispinosus Kozur and Mostler 1981 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Capnuchosphaeridae
? Plafkerium cf. contortum Dumitrica et al. 1980 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Relindellidae
Pentaspongodiscus mesotriassicus Dumitrica et al. 1980 radiolarian
Pentaspongodiscus symmetricus Dumitrica et al. 1980 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Spongopalliidae
Spongopallium contortum Dumitrica et al. 1980 radiolarian
? Spongopallium tetrapterum n. sp. Ramovs and Gorican 1995 radiolarian
 Spumellaria -