Tičji Rat section, rudist biostrome (Cretaceous of Croatia)

Where: Split-Dalmatia, Croatia (43.3° N, 16.8° E: paleocoordinates 28.6° N, 17.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lovrečina Member (Pučišća Formation), Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• based on foraminiferal biostratigraphy

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or biohermlithified

• Metre-thick rudist-bearing bed of the Tiji Rat section, it overlies peloidal wackestone to packstone with skeletal components. Centimetre-scale grainstone beds were also observed.

•Two types of matrix dominate in these lithologies: (1) peloid

•grains in sparite matrix (peloidal grainstone), and (2) carbonate

•mud (wackestone to packstone).

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: chemical, mechanical

Primary reference: D. K. Hennhoefer, E. Pascual-Cebrian, T. Korbar, W. Stinnesbeck, and S. Goetz. 2014. Radiolitid rudist colonisation strategies and biostrome development in moderate-energy inner-platform environments (Campanian, Brac Island, Croatia). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 403:80-87 [W. Kiessling/A. Lauchstedt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 161073: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Andreas Lauchstedt on 01.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Distefanella radoicicae, Kuehnia sp., Pseudopolyconites sp., Bournonia excavata
Distefanella radoicicae rudist
abundant
Kuehnia sp. rudist
accessory constituent
Pseudopolyconites sp. Milovanovic 1935 rudist
abundant
Bournonia excavata d'Orbigny 1847 rudist
abundant
Foraminifera
 Textulariina - Dicyclinidae
Dicyclina schlumbergeri
Dicyclina schlumbergeri Munier-Chalmas 1887
 Textulariina - Pfenderinidae
Accordiella conica
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Soritidae
Scandonea mediterranea