Where: Bulgaria (42.8° N, 22.8° E: paleocoordinates 25.1° N, 20.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: V. L. Tchechmedjieva. 1986. Paleoecologie des Madreporaires du Cretace superieur dans le Srednogorie de l'Ouest (Bulgarie occidentale) (Paleoecology of Upper Cretaceous scleractinians from the Western Sredna Gora (Western Bulgaria)]. Geologica Balcanica 16(5):55-81 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 67563: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.11.2006, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae | |
Chaetetidae indet. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 chaetetid sponge | |
Actinostromaria microstoma demosponge | |
Anthozoa | |
Polytremacis blainvillei Michelin 1841 | |
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Parasmilia centralis Mantell 1822 stony coral | |
"Polyastropsis arnaudi" = Thamnoseris arnaudi
"Polyastropsis arnaudi" = Thamnoseris arnaudi Alloiteau 1957 stony coral | |
"Synastraea granifera" = Synastrea
"Synastraea granifera" = Synastrea stony coral | |
"Carantoseris humilis" = Acrosmilia
"Carantoseris humilis" = Acrosmilia stony coral | |
"Actinastrea decaphylla" = Stelidioseris decaphylla2
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"Haimesiphyllia salsensis" = Cladocora
"Haimesiphyllia salsensis" = Cladocora stony coral | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoida indet. Troschel 1872 sea urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
Eoradiolites sp. Douvillé 1909 rudist
Biradiolites sp. d'Orbigny 1850 rudist
Radiolites sp. Lamarck 1801 rudist | |
Hippurites sp. Lamarck 1801 rudist
Pseudovaccinites sp. SĂ©nesse 1946 rudist
Vaccinites sp. Fischer 1887 rudist | |
Plagioptychus sp. Matheron 1842 rudist | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Gastropoda | |
Trochactaeon sp. Meek 1863 snail | |
unclassified | |
Annelida indet. Lamarck 1809 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 |