Where: Bulgaria (42.8° N, 22.9° E: paleocoordinates 27.1° N, 21.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Original age assigment Maastrichtian. Revised by Swinburne et al. (Cret. Res. 13, 1992) based on Sr isotopes and larger foraminifers

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified marl and lithified, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: V. L. Tchechmedjieva. 1986. Paleoecologie des Madreporaires du Cretace superieur dans le Srednogorie de l'Ouest (Bulgarie occidentale) (Paleoecology of Upper Cretaceous scleractinians from the Western Sredna Gora (Western Bulgaria)]. Geologica Balcanica 16(5):55-81 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67575: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.11.2006, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling