Geologia Croatica, Vol. 76 No. 2, 2023.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.4154/gc.2023.07
Upper Miocene ostracods from the Krško Basin, SE Slovenia
Miha Marinšek
; Geological Survey of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Valentina Hajek-Tadesse
orcid.org/0000-0002-3396-7897
; Croatian Geological Survey, Zagreb, Croatia
Marijan Poljak
Tea Kolar-Jurkovšek
; Geological Survey of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Luka Gale
; Geological Survey of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to identify the ostracod assemblage from a 43 m thick section of the Bizeljsko Formation, which constitutes the middle part of the Upper Miocene Posavje Group. The succession comprises sandstone, siltstone, and marlstone, deposited in a delta front environment. The determined ostracods belong to the families Cyprididae, Cytheridae, Darwinulidae, and Loxoconchidae. In total, 30 species were identified. Additionally, 8 morphotypes were determined at the genus level. The most common genera are Candona, Hemicytheria, and Cyprideis. The assemblage belongs to the Caspiocypris labiata subzone from the upper Pannonian. The ostracod assemblage from the Krško Basin is similar in species composition to Pannonian ostracod assemblages from Croatia and Serbia.
Keywords
Lake Pannon; Bizeljsko Formation; Pannonian; biostratigraphy; palaeoenvironment
Hrčak ID:
306101
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Publication date:
16.6.2023.
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