Costei (Miocene of Romania)

Where: Romania (45.9° N, 22.4° E: paleocoordinates 45.3° N, 21.9° 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

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 72246: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.05.2007, edited by Marko Manojlovic

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Megathyrididae
"Megathyris detruncata" = Megathiris detruncata, "Argyrotheca cordata" = Joania cordata
"Megathyris detruncata" = Megathiris detruncata Gmelin 1791
"Argyrotheca cordata" = Joania cordata Risso 1826
 Terebratulida - Kraussinidae
Megerlia truncata Linnaeus 1767
Craniata
 Craniida - Craniidae
"Crania abnormis" = Ancistrocrania abnormis
"Crania abnormis" = Ancistrocrania abnormis Defrance and Hoeninghaus 1828
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Amussium cristatum" = Amusium scallop
"Chlamys varia" = Chlamys (Chlamys) varia Linnaeus 1758 scallop