Obarsia Vaii Tatarului, Bucegi Mountains (Jurassic of Romania)

Where: Romania (45.4° N, 25.5° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 32.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Strungulita Formation, Bajocian (170.3 - 168.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I. Lazar. 2004. The Jurassic bivalve fauna from the western side of the Bucegi Mountains, part 1 subclasses Palaeotaxodonta and Pteriomorphia (Orders Arcoida, Pterioida, Limoida). Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 4:217-231 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122236: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.12.2011

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
? Palaeonucula sp. Quenstedt 1930 nut clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus Schlotheim 1813 scallop
Radulopecten vagans Sowerby 1826 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
Ctenostreon cf. proboscideum Sowerby 1820 file clam
Plagiostoma cf. hellica d'Orbigny 1850 file clam
Plagiostoma bynei Cox and Arkell 1948 file clam
 Ostreida - Malleidae
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna ampla Sowerby 1812 oyster