Valeni (Eocene of Romania)

Where: Romania (46.8° N, 23.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 20.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Inucu Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• "Orizontul marnelor si calcarelor cu molluste" overlying the "Nummulites perforatus beds", probably Inucu Formation (Rusu 2004)

• 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 101824: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.01.2011

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
Rimella fissurella Linnaeus 1767 true conch
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula (Bicorbula) gallica Lamarck 1801 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Laevicardium (Trachycardium) gigas" = Trachycardium
"Laevicardium (Trachycardium) gigas" = Trachycardium cockle