Where: Bulgaria (41.9° N, 26.5° E: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 23.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bartonian to Bartonian (41.3 - 33.9 Ma)
• formation unnamed; found in borehole at depth of 176m
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•latest Bartonian or early Priabonian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; brown, sandy siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: B. Mennecart, D. Geraads, N. Spassov and I. Zagorchev. 2018. Discovery of the oldest European ruminant in the late Eocene of Bulgaria: Did tectonics influence the diachronic development of the Grande Coupure?. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 498:1-8 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 192671: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 15.04.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Bachitherium thraciensis n. sp.
Bachitherium thraciensis n. sp. Mennecart et al. 2018 ruminant |