Lapugiul de Sus (Miocene of Romania)

Where: Romania (45.9° N, 22.5° E: paleocoordinates 45.3° N, 22.0° 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: shallow subtidal; lithified marl and lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Nicorici. 1975. Contribution a la connaissance des pectinides badeniennes de Roumanie [Badenian pectinids of Romania]. Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Geologia-Geographia 20:32-37 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 72244: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.05.2007

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys brussoni scallop
var. leufroyi
"Chlamys opercularis" = Aequipecten opercularis Linnaeus 1758 scallop
subsp. trigonocosta
"Chlamys radians" = Aequipecten radians Nyst and Westendorp 1839 scallop
"Chlamys multistriata" = Talochlamys multistriata Poli 1795 scallop
Pecten aduncus Eichwald 1830 scallop
Pecten hornensis Deperet and Roman 1902 scallop
"Amussium cristatum" = Amusium scallop
subsp. badense
"Amussium duodecimlamellatum" = Amusium scallop