Špik Mountain, Trnovski Gozd (Jurassic of Slovenia)

Where: Slovenia (46.4° N, 13.8° E: paleocoordinates 31.6° N, 20.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• "upper part of the Middle Lias: Domerian" (Buser & Debeljak 1994)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

• "Several meters below the Špik summit appears an approximately 70 cm thick layer of grey brown marly limestone that contains abundant various bivalves" (Buser & Debeljak 1994)

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Buser and I. Debeljak. 1994. Lower Jurassic beds with bivalves in south Slovenia (Spodnjejurske plasti s školjkami v južni Sloveniji). Geologija (Ljubljana) 37:23-62 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 201855: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 04.06.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Ostreida - Pergamidiidae
"Mytilus mirabilis" = Manticula problematica
"Mytilus mirabilis" = Manticula problematica Zittel 1864 oyster
 Ostreida - Malleidae
 Megalodontida - Megalodontidae
Megalodontidae indet. Morris 1853 clam