Kanfanar, Palorbitolina lenticularis zone, Istria (Cretaceous of Croatia)

Where: Croatia (45.1° N, 13.8° E: paleocoordinates 28.6° N, 21.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: "Kanfanar" Formation, Early/Lower Aptian (125.5 - 122.5 Ma)

• intervals b, c, b', d and e; frequent rudist occurences within interval c and e; Palorbitolina lenticularis zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified floatstone and lithified grainstone

• Bacinella oncolite floatstones (intervals b, c and b') and bioclastic grainstones (intervals d and e)

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: J. P. Masse, M. Fenerci-Masse, T. Korbar and I. Velic. 2004. Lower Aptian rudist faunas (Bivalvia, Hippuritoidea) from Croatia. Geologia Croatica 57(2):117-137 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63999: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.08.2006

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Taxonomic list

Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Bacinella irregularis Radoicic 1959
Foraminifera
  -
 Lituolida - Haplophragmoididae
  -
 Orbitolinacea - Orbitolinidae
 Textulariina - Cuneolinidae
 Lituolacea - Mayncinidae
Mayncina bulgarica Laug et al. 1980
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Alveolinidae
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Requieniidae
Toucasia sp. Munier-Chalmas 1873 rudist