Kamenica nad Hronom (Miocene of Slovakia)

Where: Slovakia (47.8° N, 18.7° E: paleocoordinates 47.5° N, 18.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Litava Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Kopek. 1952. Juhoslovenske Miocenne koraly [Miocene corals from southern Slovakia]. Geologicky Sbornik 3:69-87 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123208: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.01.2012, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo sp. Linnaeus 1758 turtle
One isolated neural element similar to those of the genus Testudo (in Zázvorka, 1957; his fig. on p. 96).
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea froehlichiana Reuss 1847 stony coral