Hidegkut section, Bed 20 (Triassic of Hungary)

Where: Hungary (47.0° N, 17.8° E: paleocoordinates 0.3° N, 30.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Csopak Marl Formation), Spathian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• Presence of Tirolites indicates a Spathian age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; gray limestone and gray, argillaceous siltstone

• deposited in a quiet subtidal zone below the fair-weather base

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: C. Broglio Loriga, F. Goczan, J. Haas, K. Lenner, C. Neri, A.S. Oravecz, R. Posenato, I. Szabo, and A.M. Toth. 1990. The lower Triassic sequences of the Dolomites (Italy) and transdanubian mid-mountains (Hungary) and their correlation. Memorie di Scienze Geologiche 42:41-103 [L. Villier/J. Millet/J. Millet]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 139970: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 25.02.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Tirolitidae
Tirolites cassianus Quenstedt 1845 ceratite
Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
Costatoria costata Zenker 1833 clam
Neoschizodus ovatus Goldfuss 1838 clam