Krizna Luka , Hvar (Cretaceous of Croatia)

Where: Croatia (43.2° N, 16.5° E: paleocoordinates 28.6° N, 16.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Brac Marbles Member (Pucisca Formation), Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• uppermost Pucisca Formation, latest Middle Campanian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified packstone and lithified rudstone

• massive, light-grey to white, mostly recrystallized peloidal-bioclastic packstone to rudstones, characterized in places by chalky appearance

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. Korbar, B. C. Tesovic, I. Radovanovic, K. Krizmanic, T. Steuber and P. W. Skelton. 2010. Campanian Pseudosabinia from the Pucisca Formation on the island of Hvar (Adriatic Sea, Croatia). Turkish Journal of Earth Sciences 19:721-731 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 112292: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.07.2011

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Orbitoidacea - Orbitoididae
 Orbitoidacea - Lepidorbitoididae
Praesiderolites sp. Wannier 1983
Pseudosiderolites vidali Douville 1907
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Radiolitidae indet. Gray 1848 rudist
Pseudosabinia klinghardti Boehm 1927 rudist
Pseudopolyconites sp. Milovanovic 1935 rudist
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
Hippuritidae indet. Gray 1848 rudist
Vaccinites sp. Fischer 1887 rudist
 Hippuritida - Plagioptychidae
Mitrocaprina sp. Boehm 1895 rudist
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramidae indet. Giebel 1852 clam