Salgótarján (Chlamys sandstone mine dump Károly shaft) (Miocene of Hungary)

Where: Hungary (48.1° N, 19.8° E: paleocoordinates 47.2° N, 19.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• Karpatian age = Late Burdigalian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone

• Karpatian Chlamys sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: Donated by Istvan Hrozientsik, mine director in 1927.

•Repository: Hungarian Museum of Natural History

Primary reference: M. A. Bitner and A. Dulai. 2004. Revision of Miocene brachiopods of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, with special regard to the Meznerics collection. Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 22:69-82 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152561: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 25.11.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
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Bivalvia sp. Linnaeus 1758 clam
?Bivalvia
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Gryphus miocaenicus Michelotti 1847