Zilinska Lehota (Cretaceous of Slovakia)

Where: Slovakia (49.1° N, 18.6° E: paleocoordinates 39.1° N, 17.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kysuca Group, Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)

• uncertain age

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: H. Eliasova. 1991. Quelques Scleractiniaires nouveaux de la Slovaquie (Cretace et Paleogene, Tchecoslovaquie) [Some new Scleractinia from Slovakia (Cretaceous and Paleogene)]. Zapadne Karpaty, Seria Paleontologia 15:49-55 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87546: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.03.2009

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Caryophyllia sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral