Bivolare reef, Pleven, NW Bulgaria (Miocene of Bulgaria)

Also known as Reef 1624

Where: Bulgaria (43.5° N, 24.6° E: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 24.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Badenian (13.7 - 12.7 Ma)

• Lower Badenian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• reef 15 m thick and 50 m long

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Pisera. 1996. Miocene reefs of the Paratethys: a review. SEPM Concepts in Sedimentology and Paleontology 5:97-104 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 70048: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.03.2007, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Thecideida - Thecidellinidae
Minutella bulgarica2 Bitner and Motchurova-Dekova 2016
 Terebratulida - Megathyrididae
"Argyrotheca cordata" = Joania cordata1, Argyrotheca cuneata1
"Argyrotheca cordata" = Joania cordata1 Risso 1826
Argyrotheca cuneata1 Risso 1826
Craniata
 Craniida - Craniidae
Novocrania anomala2 Muller 1776
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Heliastraeidae
Heliastrea sp. Milne Edwards and Haime 1857 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Tarbellastraea sp. Alloiteau 1950 stony coral
Tarbellastraea reussiana3 Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
Tarbellastraea raulini3 Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850 stony coral
Tarbellastraea tenera3 Reuss 1847 stony coral
Favites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
Solenastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderastrea sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Porites sp. Link 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Pocilloporidae
Stylophora sp. Schweigger 1819 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Turbinaria sp. Oken 1815 stony coral
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Corallinaceae indet. Lamouroux 1816