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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Rimella fissurella Linnaeus 1767 true conch | |
Ampullina patula snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Corbula (Bicorbula) gallica Lamarck 1801 clam | |
"Laevicardium (Trachycardium) gigas" = Trachycardium
"Laevicardium (Trachycardium) gigas" = Trachycardium cockle |