Where: Lovech, Bulgaria (42.9° N, 25.3° E: paleocoordinates 22.2° N, 27.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Balgarene Formation (Lovech Urgonian Group), Early/Lower Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: V. Idakieva. 2007. Taxonomy of scleractinian corals from the Barremian-Lower Aptian of central north Bulgaria (Lovech Urgonian Group). Godishnik na Sofiyskiya Universitet Sv. Kliment Okhridski, Geologo-Geografski Fakultet, Geologiya 100:29-66 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 91678: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.10.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Actinastrea urgonensis Koby 1896 stony coral | |
"Cyathophora miyakoensis" = Cryptocoenia miyakoensis
"Cyathophora miyakoensis" = Cryptocoenia miyakoensis Eguchi 1936 stony coral | |
Heliocoenia pseudocorallina Sikharulidze 1977 stony coral | |
Calamophylliopsis compressa d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral |