Where: Bulgaria (43.4° N, 24.5° E: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 24.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Badenian (13.7 - 12.7 Ma)

• Early Badenian on the basis of the planktonic foraminifera

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, argillaceous packstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve

• Repository: Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences

Primary reference: M. A. Bitner and N. Motchurova-Dekova. 2016. Middle Miocene (Badenian) brachiopods from Yasen, northwestern Bulgaria: taxonomic composition and biogeographical significance. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 279:7-22 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175794: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.01.2016

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