Dúbravka-Fuchsov lom, upper part, FL 4 (Miocene of Slovakia)

Also known as abandoned quarry in corallinacean limestones NW of Dúbravka

Where: Slovakia (48.2° N, 17.0° E: paleocoordinates 47.8° N, 16.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sarmatian (12.7 - 11.6 Ma)

• Early Sarmatian age (lower part of the Elphidium reginum Range Zone).

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; sandstone

• 359 m. Sandstones, conglomerates and corallinacean clays is exposed in a 16.9 m-thick section in an abandoned quarry. The sequence starts with coarse-grained sandstones with clasts and red algae with indistinct bedding. The sediments become gradually finer higher in the sequence. In this lithofacies, up to a 20 cm-thick shell bed with Cubitostrea shells occurs. The sequence continues with a 20–30 cm-thick layer of breccia with large clasts followed by a thin layer of densely packed oyster shells. Higher in the section fi ne massive limestones, occasionally with rhodolits, are exposed. The upper part of the section is composed of corallinacean clay beds, bioclastic limestones and layers of corallinacean limestone
• thin layers of friable sands with small pebbles formed by solid calcareous

•sandstones with densely packed gastropod shells, followed by beds of sandstones with pebbles and coarse-grained transgressive conglomerates with pebbles

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: M. Hyzny, N. Hudackova, R. Biskupic, S. Rybar, T. Fuksi, E. Halasova, K. Zagorsek, M. Jamrich, and Peter Ledvak. 2012. Devínska Kobyla- a window into the Middle Miocene shallow-water marine environments of the Central Paratethys (Vienna Basin, Slovakia). Acta Geologica Slovaca 4(2):95-111 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/S. Ávila]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 145971: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 13.06.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
unclassified
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Porifera indet.
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Coccolithophyceae
 Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae
Coccolithus pelagicus
Coccolithus pelagicus Wallich 1877
Foraminifera
 Acervulinacea - Homotrematidae
Miniacina miniacea
Miniacina miniacea
abundant specimens
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Sinuloculina consobrina
 Miliolida - Hauerinidae
Pseudotriloculina rotunda
Foraminifera
 Rotalioidea - Elphidiidae
Elphidium reginum, Elphidium josephinum