Disevice, Pleven, northwestern Bulgaria (Miocene of Bulgaria)

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

• bluish-gray calcareous and siltclastic clays, interbedded with lenses and layers of organogeneous limestone, and sometimes bearing sand banks at the base

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
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
"Lamellinucula sulcata" = Nucula (Lamellinucula)
"Lamellinucula sulcata" = Nucula (Lamellinucula) nut clam
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Nuculana (Saccella) fragilis" = Saccella
"Nuculana (Saccella) fragilis" = Saccella pointed nut clam
 Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
 Carditida - Carditidae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Myrtea spinifera Montagu 1803 clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Venus (Ventricoloidea) nux Gmelin 1791 venus clam
 Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama gryphoides Linnaeus 1758 jewel box
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
 Arcida - Noetiidae
 Arcida - Arcidae
"Anadara diluvii" = Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii Lamarck 1805 clam
 Arcida - Limopsidae
"Limopsis (Pectunculina) anomala" = Limopsis
"Limopsis (Pectunculina) anomala" = Limopsis clam
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea digitalina" = Cubitostrea digitalina
"Ostrea digitalina" = Cubitostrea digitalina Eichwald 1830 oyster
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia ephippium Linnaeus 1758 jingle
subspecies rugulosostriata
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pecten (Flabellipecten) besseri" = Camptonectes virgatus Nilsson 1827 scallop
Hinnites crispus Brocchi 1814 scallop
 Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
"Propeamussium (Parvamussium) duodecimlamellatum" = Parvamussium duodecimlamellatum
"Propeamussium (Parvamussium) duodecimlamellatum" = Parvamussium duodecimlamellatum Bronn 1832 mud scallop
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