Trnienie, Pleven, northwestern Bulgaria (Miocene of Bulgaria)

Where: Bulgaria (43.4° N, 24.5° E: paleocoordinates 42.7° N, 23.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)

• Lower Badenian (Moravian)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified claystone

• bluish-gray calcareous and siltclastic clays, interbedded with lenses and layers of organogeneous limestone, and sometimes bearing sand banks at the base

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. V. Popov, I. A. Gontsharova, P. I. Nikolov and B. Studencka. 1996. Bivalve Molluscs from the Badenian of Northwestern Bulgaria. Paleontological Journal 30(2):157-166 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 60288: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 09.05.2006, edited by Austin Hendy

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Nuculana (Saccella) fragilis" = Saccella
"Nuculana (Saccella) fragilis" = Saccella pointed nut clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula (Nucula) nucleus Linnaeus 1758 nut clam
"Lamellinucula sulcata" = Nucula (Lamellinucula) nut clam
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Mytilida - Crenellidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Neopycnodonte navicularis Brocchi 1814 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea digitalina" = Cubitostrea digitalina
"Ostrea digitalina" = Cubitostrea digitalina Eichwald 1830 oyster
 Pectinida - Limidae
Limaria tuberculata Olivi 1792 file clam
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia ephippium Linnaeus 1758 jingle
subspecies rugulosostriata
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Spondylus crassicosta Lamarck 1819 scallop
Spondylus concentricus Bronn 1831 scallop
Spondylus gaederopus Linnaeus 1758 scallop
"Chlamys (Aequipecten) scabrella" = Chlamys scabrellus Lamarck 1819 scallop
"Amusium cristatum" = Cristatopecten cristatum Bronn 1827 scallop
"Crassadoma multistriata" = Talochlamys multistriata Poli 1795 scallop
Pecten (Gigantopecten) latissimus scallop
subspecies nodosiformis
Pecten (Oppenheimopecten) aduncus Eichwald 1830 scallop
"Pecten (Flabellipecten) besseri" = Camptonectes virgatus Nilsson 1827 scallop
Hinnites crispus Brocchi 1814 scallop
"Chlamys (Aequipecten) jackloweciana" = Aequipecten scallop
 Arcida - Limopsidae
"Limopsis (Pectunculina) minuta" = Limopsis
"Limopsis (Pectunculina) minuta" = Limopsis clam
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
 Arcida - Arcidae
"Anadara diluvii" = Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii Lamarck 1805 clam
Barbatia (Barbatia) barbata Linnaeus 1758 clam
Acar clathrata miniature ark
"Arca (Arca) noae" = Arca noae Linnaeus 1758 ark
 Arcida - Noetiidae
 Carditida - Carditidae
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
 Solenida - Pharidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Cardiida - Semelidae
Abra (Syndosmya) alba Wood 1802 abra
subspecies alba
 Cardiida - Solecurtidae
Solecurtus strigilatus Linnaeus 1767 clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
 Cardiida - Psammobiidae
 Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama gryphoides Linnaeus 1758 jewel box
Pseudochama gryphina Lamarck 1819 jewel box
 Cardiida - Trapezidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Circomphalus subplicatus dOrbigny 1852 venus clam
Venus (Ventricoloidea) nux Gmelin 1791 venus clam
Callista chione Linnaeus 1758 venus clam
Pitar (Pitar) rudis Poli 1795 venus clam
Gafrarium eximium venus clam
 Cardiida - Kelliellidae
 Cardiida - Ungulinidae
"Felaniella brevifurcata" = Diplodonta, "Diplodonta rotundata" = Diplodonta (Diplodonta) rotundata
"Felaniella brevifurcata" = Diplodonta clam
"Diplodonta rotundata" = Diplodonta (Diplodonta) rotundata Montagu 1803 clam
 Cardiida - Montacutidae
 Cardiida - Leptonidae
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Myrtea spinifera Montagu 1803 clam
"Ctena decussata" = Codakia (Ctena) decussata Costa 1829 clam
"Codakia (Epilucina) haidingeri" = Epilucina clam
"Loripes (Microloripes) dentatus" = Lucina (Microloripes) clam
Linga (Linga) columbella Lamarck 1818 clam
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