Poljsica (Oligocene of Slovenia)

Where: Slovenia (46.3° N, 14.3° E: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 12.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gornji Grad Formation, Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

• Gornji Grad aka Oberburg Beds, Middle Oligocene

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• bluish clayey limestone breccia with molluscs, corals and balanids

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. Kolosvary. 1967. Korallen und Balaniden aus den paläogenen Schichten Jugoslawiens [Corals and balanids from Paleogene beds of Yugoslavia]. Geologija 10:205-218 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87472: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.03.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora conferta Reuss 1868 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
 Scleractinia - Actinacididae
Actinacis rollei Reuss 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
"Mycetoseris patula" = Cyathoseris
"Mycetoseris patula" = Cyathoseris stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
? Trochosmilia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Rhizangiidae
Phyllangia epithecalis Lörenthey 1917 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Trochocyathus sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
Euphyllia contorta stony coral
Thecostraca
 Balanomorpha - Balanidae
Balanus cf. improvisus Darwin 1854 barnacle
Balanus crenatus Bruguière 1789 barnacle
"Balanus tintinnabulum" = Megabalanus tintinnabulum Linnaeus 1758 barnacle
"Balanus concavus" = Concavus concavus Bronn 1831 barnacle