Savadisla (Eocene of Romania)

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

• inner shelf of an open sea, with a tidal regime
• sandy marls with bioclastic limestone and marlstone intercalations

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
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Calyptraea (Trochita) cf. aperta Solander 1766 slipper shell
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
"Galeodes (Pugilina) subcarinata" = Melongena
"Galeodes (Pugilina) subcarinata" = Melongena snail
 Tectibranchia - Akeridae
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia (Anomia) tenuistriata Deshayes 1824 jingle
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys "sp. 1" Röding 1798 scallop
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna (Pinna) margaritacea Lamarck 1805 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae