Sample 316, 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 155001: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.03.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Ostracoda
 Myodocopida - Polycopidae
Polycope "sp. 1", Polycope bourquinae
Polycope bourquinae Crasquin-Soleau and Gradinaru 1996 ostracod
 Podocopida - Candonidae
Spinocypris vulgaris
Spinocypris vulgaris Kozur 1971 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bythocytheridae
Triassocythere thierryi
Triassocythere thierryi Crasquin-Soleau and Gradinaru 1996 ostracod
 Podocopida - Acratiidae
Acratia goemoeryi
Acratia goemoeryi Kozur 1970 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Bairdiacypris mirautaae, Bairdiacypris anisica, Bairdia "sp. B", Bairdia szaszi, Bairdia avrami, Urobairdia fauconnierae, "Urobairdia cf. angusta" = Bairdia (Urobairdia) angusta
Bairdiacypris mirautaae Crasquin-Soleau and Gradinaru 1996 ostracod
Bairdiacypris anisica Kozur 1971 ostracod
Bairdia "sp. B" M'Coy 1844 ostracod
Bairdia szaszi Crasquin-Soleau and Gradinaru 1996 ostracod
Bairdia avrami Crasquin-Soleau and Gradinaru 1996 ostracod
Urobairdia fauconnierae Crasquin-Soleau and Gradinaru 1996 ostracod
"Urobairdia cf. angusta" = Bairdia (Urobairdia) angusta Kollmann 1963 ostracod