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Novopazarski zbornik, 44/2021, str. 257-267 267

Vera Vukanic
State University of Novi Pazar,
Bio-Medicine Department, Biology

THE ENCLOSE TO INTRODUCING FOSSIL FAUNA OF MARINE
INVERTEBRATES (HIPPURITES) IN THE AREA OF NOVI PAZAR
(SANJAK, WESTERN SERBIA)

Abstract: Viewed from the geological aspect, the development of animal
and plant world, more precisely, its evolution through the past geological periods
can be introduced exclusively though the data offered by fossils. Through fossil
organisms or organic remains, and also the rocks where they have been kept, we
can judge on the environmental conditions (physical, chemical or bionomic) that
ruled during the geological periods. The data offer to us a more precise definition
of the life area of a certain geological periods, and it helps us to reconstruct so­
called fossil life area. Since the environmental life conditions, the life area is clearly
determined like terrestrial, marine or aerial, with some transitive possibilities and
combinations. All these life environments existed in the previous geological periods,
with a similar allocation and relations, and it conditioned the existence of specific
life communities. In the territory of Novi Pazar municipality that undoubtedly
belongs to the terrestrial eco­system, today, we can find rich sediments of chalk
fossils today, the population of the marine bottoms. Within this paper, we give a
review of an extinct order of mussels of Hippurites. These are mollusks that have
been found in the later chalk sediments of Greece, Serbia, Dalmatia, Istra, Bosnia
and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Italy.

Key words: fossils, Paleogeological heritage, Hippurites, chalk.