Where: Romania (46.9° N, 23.2° E: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 20.2° 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 101879: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.01.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Turritella (Haustator) imbricataria" = Haustator imbricataria
"Turritella (Haustator) imbricataria" = Haustator imbricataria Lamarck 1804 turret shell | |
Hippochrenes cf. ampulus snail | |
"Terebellum (Seraphs) sopitum" = Seraphs
"Terebellum (Seraphs) sopitum" = Seraphs snail | |
Rimella fissurella Linnaeus 1767 true conch | |
"Galeodes (Pugilina) subcarinata" = Melongena
"Galeodes (Pugilina) subcarinata" = Melongena snail | |
"Conus (Leptoconus) diversiformis" = Conus diversiformis
"Conus (Leptoconus) diversiformis" = Conus diversiformis Deshayes 1824 cone shell | |
Voluta (Voluta) bericorum volute | |
"Xenophora (Xenophora) cumulans" = Xenophora cummulans
"Xenophora (Xenophora) cumulans" = Xenophora cummulans Brongniart 1823 carrier shell | |
Ampullina patula snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Panope (Panope) oppenheimi, "Panope (Panope) cf. intermedia" = Panopea intermedia
"Panope (Panope) cf. intermedia" = Panopea intermedia Sowerby 1814 clam | |
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Corbula (Bicorbula) gallica Lamarck 1801 clam | |
Vulsella (Vulsella) kochii oyster | |
Gryphae (Gryphaea) brongniarti Bronn 1831 oyster |