Márkháza (Kakukk-hegy tuffaceous layers) (Miocene of Hungary)

Where: Hungary (48.0° N, 19.7° E: paleocoordinates 47.6° N, 19.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Badenian (13.7 - 12.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, tuffaceous limestone and unlithified, tuffaceous sandstone

• tuffaceous limestone and tuffaceous sand layers

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by Meznerics in 1950

• Repository: Hungarian Museum of Natural History

Primary reference: M. A. Bitner and A. Dulai. 2004. Revision of Miocene brachiopods of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, with special regard to the Meznerics collection. Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 22:69-82 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152606: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 27.11.2013

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
Aphelesia sp. Cooper 1959
Aphelesia bipartita Brocchi 1814
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Gryphus miocaenicus Michelotti 1847
Terebratula sp. Müller 1776
Terebratula sinuosa Brocchi 1814
 Terebratulida - Platidiidae
Platidia anomioides Scacchi and Philippi 1844