Todii Valley Section, lower part (Cretaceous of Romania)

Where: Romania (47.0° N, 22.3° E: paleocoordinates 26.3° N, 27.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Valea Magurii Formation, Early/Lower Aptian (125.5 - 122.5 Ma)

• the upper part of the lower Aptian, or the upper Bedoulian

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; mudstone and wackestone

• The most representative microfacies are fenestral mudstone/ wackestone bioclastic wackestone, wackestone and peloidal bioclastic packstone/grainstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: D. F. Lazar, I. I. Bucur, I. Cociuba and E. Sasaran. 2012. Sedimentary succession of the Lower Cretaceous deposits from the north-western part of Pădurea Craiului (Apuseni Mountains, Romania). Studia UBB Geologia 57(1):33-51 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 146232: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 18.06.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Foraminifera
 Textulariina - Nezzazatidae
Nezzazatinella sp. Darmoian 1976
 Textulariina - Cuneolinidae
 Ataxophragmiacea - Globotextulariidae
? Arenobulimina sp. Cushman 1927
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Textularia sp. Defrance 1824
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Cornuspiridae
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam