Vipava Valley (Eocene of Slovenia)

Also known as Reef 3635

Where: Slovenia (45.9° N, 13.9° E: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 12.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

• Early Eocene and/or Paleocene clasts in Early Eocene flysch deposits

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• mud-mound or reef-mound type buildups
• gray to beige coral and coral/algal wackestone clasts in resedimented carbonates within the flysch deposits. Plenty of peloids in matrix suggesting microbial activity.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: D. Turnsek and A. Kosir. 2004. Bacarella vipavica n. gen., n. sp. (Anthozoa, Scleractinia) from reefal blocks in Lower Eocene carbonate megabeds in the Vipava Valley (SW Slovenia). Razprave Slovenska Akademija Znanosti in Umetnosti, Razred za Naravoslovne Vede, 4 45(3):145-169 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75473: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.10.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Acroporidae
Alveopora sp., "Astraeopora sp." = Astreopora, Bacarella vipavica n. gen. n. sp.
Alveopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
"Astraeopora sp." = Astreopora Blainville 1830 stony coral
Bacarella vipavica n. gen. n. sp. Turnsek and Kosir 2004 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Actinacididae
Actinacis sp.
Actinacis sp. d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Poritidae
Goniopora sp.
Goniopora sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Agathiphylliidae
Agathiphyllia sp.
Agathiphyllia sp. Reuss 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Euphylliidae
"Plocophyllia sp." = Euphyllia
"Plocophyllia sp." = Euphyllia Dana 1846 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Rhizangiidae
Rhizangia sp., "Glyphastraea sp." = Septastrea
Rhizangia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
"Glyphastraea sp." = Septastrea d'Orbigny 1849 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Strotogyra sp.
Strotogyra sp. Wells 1937 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Dendrophyllia sp.
Dendrophyllia sp. Blainville 1830 stony coral