“…The Bajocian‐Bathonian succession of the Adriatic Platform contains a highly diversified benthic foraminifera association with several index species that form seven biozones (Velić, 2007): Timidonella sarda Taxon‐Range Zone (Late Aalenian‐Early Bajocian), Timidonella sarda‐Pseudodictyopsella jurassica Interval Zone (late Early Bajocian), Pseudodictyopsella jurassica and Marzoella ficcarellii Assemblage Zone (middle Bajocian), Pseudodictyopsella jurassica‐Paravalvulina complicata Interval Zone (middle Bajocian), Paravalvulina complicata Taxon‐Range Zone (latest Bajocian), Paleopfenderina salernitana Taxon‐Range Zone (Bathonian‐?earliest Callovian), and Satorina apuliensis Taxon‐Range Subzone (Late Bathonian). Among the calcareous algae, Selliporella donzellii flourished during the Late Bajocian and Early Bathonian (Prtoljan et al., 2015; Sokač & Grgasović, 2017; Velić & Sokač, 1978). Based on the above, the studied succession ranges from the base of the upper Bajocian (∼ Strenoceras niortense ammonite Zone) to the base of the Callovian ( Bullatimorphites bullatus ammonite Zone; Hesselbo et al., 2020, their Figure 26.10), with a duration of 3.2 Myr (Huang, 2018) to ∼4.5 Myr (cf., Hesselbo et al., 2020).…”