Where: Romania (47.3° N, 23.3° E: paleocoordinates 41.8° N, 20.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• Gryphaea eszterhazyi beds
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified 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 101821: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.01.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Delphinula (Delphinula) calcar Lamarck 1804 snail | |
Akera striatella snail | |
"Turritella (Haustator) oppenheimi" = Haustator
"Turritella (Haustator) oppenheimi" = Haustator turret shell | |
"Galeodes (Pugilina) subcarinata" = Melongena
"Galeodes (Pugilina) subcarinata" = Melongena snail | |
Rimella fissurella Linnaeus 1767 true conch | |
Bivalvia | |
"Chama (Chama) fimbriata" = Chama fimbriata
"Chama (Chama) fimbriata" = Chama fimbriata Defrance 1817 jewel box | |
Pitar (Callista) heberti venus clam | |
Crassatella (Crassatella) desmaresti Deshayes 1866 clam |