Also known as Molluscan clay

Where: Hungary (47.9° N, 20.4° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 40.6° N, 24.0° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Oligocene (27.3 - 23.0 Ma)

• The lithological sequence is as followes: glauconitic, tuffaceous sandstone; MOLLUSCAN CLAY; layers of marine silty, fine-grained sandstone (x layer); layers of marine limonitic sandstone (k layer); alternation fo coarse sand, carbonaceous clay and a thin gravelly intercalation (c layer)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; shelly/skeletal claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying,

• Collected for investigation of boreholes

Primary reference: A. David. 1999. Predation by naticid gastropods on late Oligocene (Egerian) molluscs collected from Wind Brickyard, Eger, Hungary. Malakologiai Tajekoztato 17:11-19 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41532: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 15.07.2004

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