Lunca Ohabei plateau, MFT6—bio-peloidal grainstone (Cretaceous to of Romania)

Where: Romania (45.5° N, 23.2° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 9.8° N, 36.2° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Berriasian to Late/Upper Berriasian (139.1 - 132.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; grainstone

• Grainstone with aggregate grains (grapestones)
• Inner-platform environment-open lagoon with different hydrodynamic regimes

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: G. Ples, A. Oprisa, I. I. Bucur, E. Sasaran, C. V. Mircescu, G. Oltean, and R. G. Iacob. 2019. The central‑western Getic Carbonate Platform: Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous biostratigraphy and sedimentary evolution of the Cioclovina–Băniţa sector (Southern Carpathians, Romania). Facies 65(32) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 201707: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 22.05.2019

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Foraminifera
 Textulariida - Montsaleviidae
Montsalevia salevensis Charollais et al. 1966
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 Lituolida - Haplophragmoididae
Haplophragmoides joukowski Charollais et al. 1966
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Palaeopalaemonidae
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail