Where: Bulgaria (43.4° N, 24.5° E: paleocoordinates 42.7° N, 23.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• Upper Badenian (Kosovian)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: S. V. Popov, I. A. Gontsharova, P. I. Nikolov and B. Studencka. 1996. Bivalve Molluscs from the Badenian of Northwestern Bulgaria. Paleontological Journal 30(2):157-166 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 60313: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.05.2006, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Lamellinucula sulcata" = Nucula (Lamellinucula)
"Lamellinucula sulcata" = Nucula (Lamellinucula) nut clam | |
"Nuculana (Saccella) fragilis" = Saccella
"Nuculana (Saccella) fragilis" = Saccella pointed nut clam | |
Yoldia longa clam | |
Myrtea spinifera Montagu 1803 clam | |
Corbula (Varicorbula) gibba Oliva 1792 clam | |
Venus (Ventricoloidea) nux Gmelin 1791 venus clam | |
Chama gryphoides Linnaeus 1758 jewel box | |
Arcopsis papillifera clam | |
"Anadara diluvii" = Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii, Bathyarca polyfasciata
"Anadara diluvii" = Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii Lamarck 1805 clam | |
"Limopsis (Pectunculina) anomala" = Limopsis
"Limopsis (Pectunculina) anomala" = Limopsis clam | |
"Ostrea digitalina" = Cubitostrea digitalina
"Ostrea digitalina" = Cubitostrea digitalina Eichwald 1830 oyster | |
Plicatula mytilina scallop | |
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"Pecten (Flabellipecten) besseri" = Camptonectes virgatus, Pecten (Amusiopecten) spinulosa, Pecten (Oppenheimopecten) cf. aduncus, Hinnites crispus
"Pecten (Flabellipecten) besseri" = Camptonectes virgatus Nilsson 1827 scallop
Pecten (Amusiopecten) spinulosa scallop
Pecten (Oppenheimopecten) cf. aduncus Eichwald 1830 scallop
Hinnites crispus Brocchi 1814 scallop | |
"Propeamussium (Parvamussium) duodecimlamellatum" = Parvamussium duodecimlamellatum
"Propeamussium (Parvamussium) duodecimlamellatum" = Parvamussium duodecimlamellatum Bronn 1832 mud scallop | |