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The coralline flora of a Miocene maërl: the Croatian “Litavac”

Daniela Basso orcid.org/0000-0002-9352-3569 ; Dipartamento di Scienze Geologiche e Geotecnologie, Università degli Studi di Milano – Bicocca
Davor Vrsaljko ; Hrvatski prirodoslovni muzej
Tonći Grgasović ; Hrvatski geološki institut

Sažetak

The fossil coralline fl ora of the Badenian bioclastic limestone outcropping in Northern Croatia is known by the name “Litavac”, shortened from “Lithothamnium Limestone”. The name was given to indicate that unidentified coralline algae are the major component. In this first contribution to the knowledge of the coralline flora of the Litavac, Lithothamnion valens seems to be the most common species, with an unattached, branched growth-form. Small rhodoliths composed of Phymatolithon calcareum and Mesophyllum roveretoi also occur. The Badenian benthic association is dominated by melobesioid corallines, thus it can be compared with the modern maërl facies of the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Since L. valens still survives in the present-day Mediterranean, an analogy between the Badenian Litavac and the living L. valens facies of the Mediterranean is suggested.

Ključne riječi

calcareous Rhodophyta; Corallinales; rhodoliths; maërl; Badenian; Croatia

Hrčak ID:

30672

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/30672

Datum izdavanja:

22.12.2008.

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