Tulcea Veche quarry (Triassic of Romania)

Where: Romania (45.2° N, 28.8° E: paleocoordinates 16.5° N, 34.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Tulcea Veche Formation, Spathian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• Lower Spathian, beds with Tirolites cassianus

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; lithified, gray lime mudstone

• The sequence is composed of thinly-bedded dark greyish micritic limestones interbedded with dark black, bituminous marly shales, with sporadic thin beds of fine-grained bioclastic limestones.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the NHMW

• Repository: LPB (FGGUB), Laboratory of Palaeontology, Faculty of Geology and Geophysics, University of Bucharest, Romania.

Primary reference: L. Cavin and E. Grădinaru. 2014. Dobrogeria aegyssensis, a new early Spathian (Early Triassic) coelacanth from North Dobrogea (Romania). Acta Geologica Polonica 64:161-187 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 161080: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Perleidiformes - Polzbergiidae
Polzbergiidae indet. Griffith 1977
Coelacanthimorpha
 Coelacanthiformes -
Dobrogeria aegyssensis n. gen. n. sp.
Dobrogeria aegyssensis n. gen. n. sp. Cavin and Grădinaru 2014 coelacanth
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Dinaritidae
 Ceratitida - Tirolitidae
"Tirolites cassianus" = Tirolites cassianus, "Tirolites haueri" = Tirolites cassianus
"Tirolites cassianus" = Tirolites cassianus Quenstedt 1845 ceratite
"Tirolites haueri" = Tirolites cassianus Quenstedt 1845 ceratite
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Claraiidae
Crittendenia decidens Bittner 1899 scallop
 Pectinida - Hunanopectinidae
"Leptochondria alberti" = Leptochondria albertii
"Leptochondria alberti" = Leptochondria albertii Goldfuss 1838 scallop
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Eumorphotis venetiana Hauer 1850 scallop