3.5 km NNW of Chtelnica, western Carpathians: Sinemurian, Slovakia

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Geology
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Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Prospondylidae
Terquemia (Dentiterquemia n. subgen.) eudesdeslongchampsi n. sp. Hautmann and Golej 2004
5 specimens
recombined as Dentiterquemia eudesdeslongchampsi
see common names

Geography
Country:Slovakia
Coordinates: 48.6° North, 17.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.8° North, 23.9° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Sinemurian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
Key time interval:Sinemurian
Age range of interval:199.50000 - 192.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: semicostatum Zone; The outcrop exposes a sequence of about 170 cm thickness. consisting of eight beds of bioclastic, glauconite-bearing limestone. The fossils are from two beds approx. 80 cm and 95 cm above the base, respectively.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal lithified packstone
Secondary lithology:shelly/skeletal lithified "reef rocks"
Lithology description: biopack- and biofloatstones, bioclasts
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collection method comments: collected in 1998 by M. Hornacek, J. Schlögl, and A. Tomasovych; specimens are deposited at the National Museum of Natural History in Bratislava
Metadata
Database number:68357
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-01-17 03:57:16 Last modified:2013-04-03 03:53:45
Access level:the public Released:2007-01-17 03:57:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

19674. M. Hautmann and M. Golej. 2004. Terquemia (Dentiterquemia) eudesdeslongchampsi new subgenus and species, an interesting cementing bivalve from the Lower Jurassic of the western Carpathians (Slovakia). Journal of Paleontology 78(6):1090-1094 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]