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)

• "Orizontul calcarelor grosiere superioare" below the "Nummulites fabianii beds"

• bed-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 102024: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.01.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Spondylus radula Lamarck 1806 scallop
 Cardiida - Glossidae
"Miocardiopsis ovalinus" = Glossus (Miocardiopsis), Miocardiopsis korobkovi n. sp.
"Miocardiopsis ovalinus" = Glossus (Miocardiopsis) clam
Miocardiopsis korobkovi n. sp. Meszaros 1957 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium "sp. 2" Linnaeus 1758 cockle
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
"Rostellaria (Sulcogladius) goniophora" = Lambis goniophora
"Rostellaria (Sulcogladius) goniophora" = Lambis goniophora Bellardi 1852 conch