Krim Mountain (Jurassic of Slovenia)

Also known as Reef 576

Where: Slovenia (45.9° N, 14.5° E: paleocoordinates 30.9° N, 21.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: "Lithiotid Horizon" Formation, Late/Upper Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• upper part of the Lithiotid Horizon

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified bafflestone and lithified framestone

• outer platform
• coral-stromatoporoid bafflestone/framestone biostromes/smaller patch reefs within thick-bedded oolitic-peloidal-bioclastic grainstone/packstones

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: D. Turnsek and A. Kosir. 2000. Early Jurassic corals from Krim Mountain, Slovenia. Razprave Slovenska Akademija Znanosti in Umetnosti, Razred za Naravoslovne Vede, IV 41(1):81-113 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87253: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.03.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Bacinella irregularis Radoicic 1959
Foraminifera
 Foraminiferida -
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera Eichwald 1830 foram
 Loftusiacea - Cyclamminidae
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
 Thaumatoporellales -
Demospongiae
 Lithistida - Anthaspidellidae
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderosmilia perithecata n. sp. Turnsek and Kosir 2000 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Cuifastraeidae
Cuifastraea lopatensis n. sp. Turnsek and Kosir 2000 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Oppelismiliidae
Heterastraea stricklandi Duncan 1867 stony coral
Heterastraea eveshami Duncan 1867 stony coral
Thecactinastraea krimensis n. sp. Turnsek and Kosir 2000 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Zardinophyllidae
Epismilia mauretaniensis Beauvais 1986 stony coral
Archaeosmiliopsis densus Melnikova 1975 stony coral
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
unclassified
  -
Annelida indet. Lamarck 1809