Where: Romania (46.8° N, 23.5° E: paleocoordinates 42.3° N, 20.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• "Orizontul calcarelor grosiere superioare" below the "Nummulites fabianii beds"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; 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 101974: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.01.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Chama (Chama) calcarata Lamarck 1806 jewel box | |
Pholadomya puschi Goldfuss 1840 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Cepatia cepacea Lamarck 1804 moon snail | |
"Terebellum (Seraphs) sopitum" = Seraphs
"Terebellum (Seraphs) sopitum" = Seraphs snail | |
"Rostellaria (Sulcogladius) goniophora" = Lambis goniophora
"Rostellaria (Sulcogladius) goniophora" = Lambis goniophora Bellardi 1852 conch | |
"Cassidaria (Cassidaria) nodosa" = Galeodea (Mambrinia) nodosa
"Cassidaria (Cassidaria) nodosa" = Galeodea (Mambrinia) nodosa Solander in Brander 1766 snail | |
Xenophora (Trochotugurium) agglutinans Lamarck 1804 carrier shell | |
Voluta (Voluta) bericorum, "Volutilithes (Volutilithes) torulosus" = Eopsephaea torulosa
Voluta (Voluta) bericorum volute
"Volutilithes (Volutilithes) torulosus" = Eopsephaea torulosa Deshayes 1835 volute | |
"Conus (Leptoconus) diversiformis" = Conus diversiformis
"Conus (Leptoconus) diversiformis" = Conus diversiformis Deshayes 1824 cone shell | |
"Turritella (Haustator) oppenheimi" = Haustator
"Turritella (Haustator) oppenheimi" = Haustator turret shell | |
Ampullina patula snail |