PALEOBIODIVERZITET BOSNE I HERCEGOVINE SA OSVRTOM NA GATAČKI UGLJENI BASEN
PALEOBIODIVERSITY OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA WITH A LOOK AT THE GACKO COAL BASIN

Summary/Abstract: Based on the extensive scientific material, collected until 1990., it was found that the palaeobiodiversity of Bosnia and Herzegovina consists of over 4,000 paleotaxons, not counting sources based on paleospeleological material. To this should be added the findings that have occurred in the last twenty years, during which period at least 125 new paleotaxons were detected in the Gacko coal-mined basin. The fossil legacy of Republika Srpska and B&H is mostly kept in foreign museums. In Republika Srpska has been done a lot of efforts to preserve the fossil heritage in the normative sense, however, there were no concrete activities in practice, either in situ or ex situ. Field research carried out on the Gacko open-pit showed that there are no major problems regarding monitoring and collecting of fossil record, which would later been professionally processed and adequately stored and presented to both professional and ordinary public.

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