ammonites
Bilina mine, Bílina (Miocene of Czech Republic)

Where: Czech Republic (50.3° N, 14.3° E: paleocoordinates 50.5° N, 12.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Most Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• Eggenburgian/Ottnangian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: J. Prokop and A. Nel. 2000. Merlax bohemicus gen. n., sp. N., a new fossil dragonfly from the Lower Miocene of northern Bohemia (Odonata: Aeshnidae). European Journal of Entomology 97:427-431 [M. Clapham/J. Karr] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 105508: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 21.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY-NC-ND (attribution-noncommercial-no derivatives)