Where: Romania (46.7° N, 23.5° E: paleocoordinates 41.1° N, 20.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Capusu Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• Rusu 2004: The Gryphaea (=Sokolowia) eszterhazyi Beds are included in the Capusu Formation of Bartonian age.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, sandy marl and lithified limestone
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 101813: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.01.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Calyptraea (Trochita) cf. aperta Solander 1766 slipper shell | |
"Galeodes (Pugilina) subcarinata" = Melongena
"Galeodes (Pugilina) subcarinata" = Melongena snail | |
Akera striatella snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Anomia (Anomia) tenuistriata Deshayes 1824 jingle | |
Chlamys "sp. 1" Röding 1798 scallop | |
Pinna (Pinna) margaritacea Lamarck 1805 oyster | |
Gryphae (Gryphaea) brongniarti Bronn 1831 oyster | |