Vrbovac Reef (Cretaceous of Serbia and Montenegro)

Also known as Reef 2648

Where: Serbia and Montenegro (43.8° N, 22.1° E: paleocoordinates 30.8° N, 20.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Vrbovac Beds Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• rudist biostromes and bioherms, biostromes predominate, Pironaea-Pseudopolyconites fauna

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Sladic-Trifunovic. 1998. On the Senonian rudist-bearing sediments in Yugoslavia. Geobios, Memoire Special 22:371-384 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 74558: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.08.2007

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Caprinidae
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
 Hippuritida - Plagioptychidae
Mitrocaprina bulgarica Tzankov 1965 rudist
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae