Devín–Terassen (Miocene of Slovakia)

Where: Slovakia (48.2° N, 17.0° E: paleocoordinates 47.7° N, 16.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Badenian (13.7 - 12.7 Ma)

• Late Badenian

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; gray, yellow sandstone

• 235 m. Yellow-grey sandstones with impoverished macrofauna are exposed together with fine aleuritic sands and sandy marls with massive concretions with high abundance of mostly infaunal bivalves
• yellow-gray sandstones–fine aleuritic sands

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: M. Hyzny, N. Hudackova, R. Biskupic, S. Rybar, T. Fuksi, E. Halasova, K. Zagorsek, M. Jamrich, and Peter Ledvak. 2012. Devínska Kobyla- a window into the Middle Miocene shallow-water marine environments of the Central Paratethys (Vienna Basin, Slovakia). Acta Geologica Slovaca 4(2):95-111 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/S. Ávila]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 145935: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 13.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Umbilicosphaera
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Coccolithophyceae
 Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae
 Coccolithales - Coccolithaceae
Helicosphaera
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Helicosphaera carteri
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Helicosphaera carteri Wallich 1877
Reticulofenestra
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Syracosphaera
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Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Nonionidae
Melonis sp. Monfort 1808
Foraminifera
  - Chilostomellidae
Pullenia sp. Parker and Jones 1862
Bivalvia
 Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia sp. Blainville 1824 clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula sp. Bruguière 1789 clam
 Cardiida - Glossidae
Glossus sp. Poli 1795 clam