Sample 313, 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, nodular, gray, red, cherty/siliceous limestone

• Closely alternating, very thinly bedded (0.02-0.05 m) cherry-reddish coloured nodular chert limestones with reddish calcareous nodules and marly shales; two distinct thin beds (0.09-0.13 m), standing in relief, of pelagic bivalve-bearing pinkish filamentous limestones with median bands of cherry coloured silica are intercalated at the top.

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 154998: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.03.2014

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Taxonomic list

Ostracoda
 Myodocopida - Polycopidae
Discoidella niculaei Sebe 2013 ostracod
Polycope cf. cincinnata Apostolescu 1959 ostracod
Polycope bourquinae Crasquin-Soleau and Gradinaru 1996 ostracod
Polycope baudi Crasquin-Soleau and Gradinaru 1996 ostracod
 Podocopida - Healdiidae
 Podocopida - Bythocytheridae
? Monoceratina renardi Crasquin-Soleau and Gradinaru 1996 ostracod
Triassocythere thierryi Crasquin-Soleau and Gradinaru 1996 ostracod
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Basslerella tota Chen and Bao 1986 ostracod
 Podocopida - Berounellidae
Nagyella longispinosa Kozur 1970 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
"Urobairdia cf. angusta" = Bairdia (Urobairdia) angusta Kollmann 1963 ostracod
Bairdia "sp. 15" M'Coy 1844 ostracod
Bairdia "sp. 1" M'Coy 1844 ostracod
Bairdia "sp. 4" M'Coy 1844 ostracod
Bairdia "sp. B" M'Coy 1844 ostracod
Bairdia "sp. C" M'Coy 1844 ostracod
Bairdia "sp. H" M'Coy 1844 ostracod
Bairdia "sp. 9" M'Coy 1844 ostracod
Bairdia avrami Crasquin-Soleau and Gradinaru 1996 ostracod
Bairdia atudoreii Crasquin-Soleau and Gradinaru 1996 ostracod
Bairdia gaelleae Crasquin 2010 ostracod
Bairdia (Rectobairdia) sandulescui Crasquin-Soleau and Gradinaru 1996 ostracod
Bairdiacypris "sp. 2" Bradfield 1935 ostracod
Bairdiacypris cf. anisica Kozur 1971 ostracod
 Podocopida - Acratiidae
Acratia goemoeryi Kozur 1970 ostracod
 Podocopida - Candonidae
Spinocypris vulgaris Kozur 1971 ostracod