Where: Romania (46.8° N, 23.3° E: paleocoordinates 41.3° N, 20.3° 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 101884: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.01.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Bivalvia | |
"Chlamys (Chlamys) solea" = Chlamys solea
"Chlamys (Chlamys) solea" = Chlamys solea Deshayes 1824 scallop | |
Corbula (Bicorbula) gallica Lamarck 1801 clam |