International Geological Journal - Official Journal of the Carpathian-Balkan Geological Association

PARAFAVREINA COPROLITES FROM THE UPPERMOST TRIASSIC OF THE WESTERN CARPATHIANS

Published: Aug 2000

Pages: 245 - 250

Authors: ANDRZEJ GAZDZICKI, JOZEF MICHALIK, ADAM TOMASOVYCH

Abstract: The anomuran thalassinid coprolite Parafavreina thoronetensis Brönnimann, Caron & Zaninetti 1972 is described from thin sections of the Norovica Formation (uppermost Triassic) from the Strazovske Vrchy Mountains in central Slovakia. This ichnospecies is one of the most common in the Norian-Rhaetian shallow marine carbonate rocks of the Tethys Realm.

Keywords: Triassic (Rhaetian), Western Carpathians, crustacean microcoprolites

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