The coralline flora of a Miocene maërl: the Croatian “Litavac”
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Title (Dublin Core)
The coralline flora of a Miocene maërl: the Croatian “Litavac”
Description (Dublin Core)
The fossil coralline flora 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.
Creator (Dublin Core)
Daniela Basso
Davor Vrsaljko
Tonći Grgasović
Subject (Dublin Core)
calcareous Rhodophyta, Corallinales, rhodoliths, maërl, Badenian, Croatia
Geology
QE1-996.5
Publisher (Dublin Core)
Croatian Geological Survey
Date (Dublin Core)
2008-12-01T00:00:00Z
Type (Dublin Core)
article
Identifier (Dublin Core)
1330-030X
1333-4875
10.4154/GC.2008.25
https://doaj.org/article/b4b80e9f2b7143ab9e11b37bbf346209
Source (Dublin Core)
Geologia Croatica, Vol 61, Iss 2-3, Pp 333-340 (2008)
Language (Dublin Core)
EN
Relation (Dublin Core)
http://www.geologia-croatica.hr/ojs/index.php/GC/article/view/34
https://doaj.org/toc/1330-030X
https://doaj.org/toc/1333-4875
Provenance (Dublin Core)
Journal Licence: CC BY