The Middle Miocene (Badenian) holoplanktonic mollusks (Euthecosomata - Pteropoda) from Serbia, Central Paratethys

Gordana Jovanović; Marija Bošnjak; Jasenka Sremac; Stjepan Ćorić; Sejfudin Vrabac

doi:10.2298/GABP240229008J

Gordana Jovanović Pančevačka 3, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4329-3416
Marija Bošnjak Croatian Natural History Museum, Demetrova 1, 10000 Zagreb. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1851-1031
Jasenka Sremac Department of Geology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4736-7497
Stjepan Ćorić GeoSphere Austria, Neulinggasse 38, 1030 Wien, Austria. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6242-8473
Sejfudin Vrabac University of Tuzla, Faculty of Mining, Geology and Civil Engineering, Univerzitetska 2, 75000 Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2298/GABP240229008J

Keywords: Langhian-Serravallian, sea butterflies, Serbia

Abstract

The present paper deals with holoplanktonic gastropods (Pteropoda) from the Middle Miocene (Badenian) deposits of Serbia. The material for the present study comes from three localities at the southern margin of the Pannonian Basin (Central Paratethys): Konjarnik (greater center of Belgrade), Sumijevac stream near Koceljeva (western Serbia), and Radljevo (Kolubara Basin, central Serbia). A total of four taxa were recorded and their stratigraphic value is discussed. Two taxa were identified to species level: Vaginella austriaca Kittl, 1886, belonging to the family Cavoliniidae Gray, 1850 (1815), and Limacina valvatina (Reuss, 1867)?, from the family Limacinidae Gray, 1847. Four specimens could only be identified to genus level (Vaginella sp. indet. and Clio? sp. indet.). The specimen of Clio? sp. indet. is possibly the first find of the genus Clio in Serbia. Here presented records of the genera Vaginella and Clio ? from the late Badenian (NN6 nannozone) modify the insight into their paleogeographical distribution in the Middle Miocene of the Central Paratethys.