Varai (Oligocene of Romania)

Where: Romania (47.4° N, 23.5° E: paleocoordinates 44.2° N, 21.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mera Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: N. Meszaros. 1957. Fauna de moluste a depozitelor Paleogene din nord-vestul Transilvaniei [Molluscan fauna from Paleogene deposits from NW Transilvania]. Biblioteca de Geologie si Paleontologie 1:1-174 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 102079: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.01.2011

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella (Haustator) interposita" = Peyrotia interposita
"Turritella (Haustator) interposita" = Peyrotia interposita Deshayes 1861 turret shell
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
Tympanotonos trochleare horn snail
var. diaboli
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae