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
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 | |
Polzbergiidae indet. Griffith 1977 | |
Coelacanthimorpha | |
Dobrogeria aegyssensis n. gen. n. sp.
Dobrogeria aegyssensis n. gen. n. sp. Cavin and Grădinaru 2014 coelacanth | |
Cephalopoda | |
Dinarites mahomedanus ceratite | |
"Tirolites cassianus" = Tirolites cassianus, "Tirolites haueri" = Tirolites cassianus
"Tirolites cassianus" = Tirolites cassianus Quenstedt 1845 ceratite
"Tirolites haueri" = Tirolites cassianus Quenstedt 1845 ceratite | |
Bivalvia | |
Crittendenia decidens Bittner 1899 scallop | |
"Leptochondria alberti" = Leptochondria albertii
"Leptochondria alberti" = Leptochondria albertii Goldfuss 1838 scallop | |
Eumorphotis venetiana Hauer 1850 scallop |