Breznik area, Lyalintsi section, F7 Bio-lithoclastic grainstones to rudstone (Cretaceous to of Bulgaria)

Where: Bulgaria (42.8° N, 22.8° E: paleocoordinates 24.4° N, 25.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Berriasian to Berriasian (145.0 - 132.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; cherty/siliceous grainstone and rudstone

• peri-reef/bioclastic shoal facies
• Bio-lithoclastic grainstones to rudstones

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: D. Ivanova, B. Kolodziej, E. Koleva- Rekalova and E. Roniewicz. 2008. Oxfordian to Valanginian palaeoenvironmental evolution on the western Moesian Carbonate Platform: a case study from SW Bulgaria. Annales Societatis Geologiorum Poloniae 78:65-90 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 151496: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 04.10.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Lithocodium aggregatum
  -
unclassified
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Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Hydrozoa
  - Nigriporellidae
Tubiphytes sp. Maslov 1956
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
unclassified
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Crinoidea
 Roveacrinida - Saccocomidae
Saccocoma sp. Agassiz 1836 Sea lily