Also known as Limonitic sandstone
Where: Hungary (46.0° N, 17.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 15.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 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; sideritic sandstone
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 41534: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Corbula basteroti" = Caryocorbula basteroti
"Corbula basteroti" = Caryocorbula basteroti Hörnes 1870 clam | |
"Cyprina islandica" = Arctica islandica
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Pitar polytropa venus clam | |
Laevicardium cyprium cockle | |
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Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium kickxi tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
"Ampullina crassatina" = Ampullinopsis crassatina
"Ampullina crassatina" = Ampullinopsis crassatina Lamarck 1804 snail | |
Polinices catena, "Polinices josephinia" = Neverita josephinia
"Polinices josephinia" = Neverita josephinia Risso 1826 moon snail Subspecies: Polinices josephina olla
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"Rostellaria dentata" = Tibia
"Rostellaria dentata" = Tibia true conch | |
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"Terebra simplex" = Neoterebra danai
"Terebra simplex" = Neoterebra danai Berry 1958 auger snail | |
"Hadriana egerensis" = Hadriania
"Hadriana egerensis" = Hadriania murex snail | |
Euthriofusus burdigalensis Defrance 1820 snail | |
"Turritella venus" = Turritella (Haustator) venus, Turritella beyrichi
"Turritella venus" = Turritella (Haustator) venus d'Orbigny 1852 turret shell Subspecies: Turritella venus margarethae
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Cerithium egerense cerith snail |