Cluj (Eocene of Romania)

Where: Romania (46.8° N, 23.6° E: paleocoordinates 42.3° N, 20.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• "Nummulites fabianii beds"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and 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 102031: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.01.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
Nautilidae indet. de Blainville 1825 nautiloid
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
"Delphinula sp." = Angaria Röding 1798 snail
 Cerithioidea - Diastomatidae
Diastoma costellatum Lamarck 1804 snail
var. alpinum
 Sorbeoconcha - Seraphsidae
"Terebellum (Seraphs) sopitum" = Seraphs
"Terebellum (Seraphs) sopitum" = Seraphs snail
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
"Athleta (Volutospina) mutata" = Athleta (Neoathleta) mutatus
"Athleta (Volutospina) mutata" = Athleta (Neoathleta) mutatus Deshayes 1835 volute
 Sorbeoconcha - Eocypraeidae
"Eocypraea (Eocypraea) cf. inflata" = Eocypraea inflata
"Eocypraea (Eocypraea) cf. inflata" = Eocypraea inflata Lamarck 1802 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
"Natica (Euspira) achatensis" = Euspira
"Natica (Euspira) achatensis" = Euspira moon snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Vermetidae
"Vermetus (Burtinella) spirulaea" = Burtinella
"Vermetus (Burtinella) spirulaea" = Burtinella worm shell
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima (Lima) rara Deshayes 1858 file clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chlamys (Chlamys) biarritzensis" = Chlamys biarritzensis, "Chlamys (Chlamys) solea" = Chlamys solea
"Chlamys (Chlamys) biarritzensis" = Chlamys biarritzensis d'Archiac 1846 scallop
and var. thorenti, var. subtripartitus
"Chlamys (Chlamys) solea" = Chlamys solea Deshayes 1824 scallop
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Cordiopsis incrassata Nyst 1836 venus clam