Sample 301, Uzum Bair hill (Triassic of Romania)

Where: Romania (45.1° N, 28.8° E: paleocoordinates 17.4° N, 33.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Marelb Formation, Aegean (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, bioturbated, nodular, gray, red, cherty/siliceous limestone

• Closely alternating, cherry-reddish marly shales and thinly bedded (0.05-0.20 m), bioturbated, reddish-cream or reddish-gray, nodular or platy limestones, with cherry-reddish coloured chert nodules.

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: original silica

Collected in 2012

Collection methods: chemical, acetic,

• Repository: The type specimens are stored in the collections of Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France, under numbers P6Mxx. Duplicate specimens are stored in the collections of the Geological Museum of Romania.

Primary reference: O.-G. Sebe, S. Crasquin, and E. Grădinaru. 2013. Early and middle Anisian (Triassic) deep-water ostracods (Crustacea) from North Dobrogea (Romania). Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève 32:509-529 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154987: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.03.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Candonidae
Spinocypris vulgaris Kozur 1971 ostracod