Drzkovce KA-77 (Triassic to of Slovakia)

Where: Slovakia (48.6° N, 20.2° E: paleocoordinates 3.0° N, 30.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Meliata Group, Illyrian to Illyrian (247.2 - 235.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (siliceous); lithified radiolarite

• red radiolarites

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: P. Dumitrica and J. Mello. 1982. On the age of the Meliata Group and the Silica Nappe radiolarites (localities Drzkovce and Bohunovo, Slovak Karst, CSSR). Geologicke Prace, Spravy 77:17-28 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96140: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.05.2010

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Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Radiolaria - Ethmosphaeridae
"Cenosphaera" sp. Ehrenberg 1854 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Oertlispongidae
Baumgartneria trifurcata Dumitrica 1982 radiolarian
Falcispongus calcaneum Dumitrica 1982 radiolarian
Oertlispongus inaequispinosus Dumitrica et al. 1980 radiolarian
 Entactinaria - Eptingiidae
Eptingium manfredi Dumitrica 1978 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Ruesticyrtiidae
Triassocampe scalaris Dumitrica et al. 1980 radiolarian