Turea (Eocene of Romania)

Where: Romania (46.9° N, 23.3° E: paleocoordinates 42.4° N, 20.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• "Marl beds with Bryozoans"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified marl

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 101966: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.01.2011

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Spondylus buchi, "Chlamys (Chlamys) biarritzensis" = Chlamys biarritzensis, "Pecten (Pecten) arcuatus" = Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus
Spondylus buchi Philippi 1846 scallop
"Chlamys (Chlamys) biarritzensis" = Chlamys biarritzensis d'Archiac 1846 scallop
var. subtripartitus
"Pecten (Pecten) arcuatus" = Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus Schlotheim 1813 scallop
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium "sp. 1" Linnaeus 1758 cockle
 Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama granulosa jewel box
 Lucinida - Thyasiridae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae