Where: Romania (46.8° N, 23.6° E: paleocoordinates 42.3° N, 20.9° 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 102026: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.01.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Barbatia (Barbatia) appendiculata Sowerby 1820 clam | |
Gryphaea (Gigantostrea) gigantica Solander in Brander 1766 oyster | |
"Pecten (Pecten) arcuatus" = Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus, "Chlamys (Chlamys) biarritzensis" = Chlamys biarritzensis
"Pecten (Pecten) arcuatus" = Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus Schlotheim 1813 scallop
"Chlamys (Chlamys) biarritzensis" = Chlamys biarritzensis d'Archiac 1846 scallop var. subtripartitus
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Mytilus sp., "Modiolus (Brachydontes) nysti" = Brachidontes, "Modiolus (Brachydontes) elegans" = Brachidontes
Mytilus sp. Linnaeus 1758 mussel
"Modiolus (Brachydontes) nysti" = Brachidontes mussel
"Modiolus (Brachydontes) elegans" = Brachidontes mussel | |
Cardita (Venericardia) laurae Brongniart 1823 clam | |
Cyrena (Cyrena) incompta Deshayes 1857 clam | |
Pitar (Callista) lunularia Deshayes 1825 venus clam
Tivela deltoidea venus clam | |
"Corbula pixidicula" = Caryocorbula pixidicula, "Corbula (Bicorbula) gallicula" = Bicorbula gallicula
"Corbula pixidicula" = Caryocorbula pixidicula Deshayes 1857 clam
"Corbula (Bicorbula) gallicula" = Bicorbula gallicula Deshayes 1857 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Patella rigaulti limpet | |
"Mesalia fasciata" = Sigmesalia fasciata
"Mesalia fasciata" = Sigmesalia fasciata Lamarck 1804 turret shell | |
Ficus greenwoodi Sowerby 1825 fig shell | |
Calyptraea (Trochita) cf. aperta Solander 1766 slipper shell |