Piatra, Dobrogea, Romania (Jurassic of Romania)

Also known as Reef 1701

Where: Romania (44.4° N, 28.6° E: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 35.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

• Coralline limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, peel or thin section,

• Focus on corals (Roniewicz, 1976)

Primary reference: A. Barbulescu. 1976. Considérations stratigraphiques concernant les formations coralligènes néojurassiques de la Dobrogea centrale (Roumanie). Palaeontologia Polonica 34:3-15 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35183: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 18.11.2003, edited by Rosa Valdez

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Quantitative date only for newly described species
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Thamnasteria concinna1 Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Solenocoeniidae
Solenocoenia sexradiata1 Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Isastrea bernensis1 Etallon 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Heliocoenia orbignyi1 Roniewicz 1966 stony coral
Heliocoenia variabilis1 Etallon 1859 stony coral
Heliocoenia gracilis1 Roniewicz 1976 stony coral
Stylosmilia corallina1 Koby 1881 stony coral
"Pseudocoenia radisensis" = Adelocoenia radisensis1 d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Epistreptophyllum densum1 Roniewicz 1976 stony coral
Calamophylliopsis stockesi1 Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
Dermosmilia dobrogeana n. sp.1 Roniewicz 1976 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Haplaraeidae
Meandraraea gresslyi1 Etallon 1864 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Comoseris interrupta1 Koby 1888 stony coral
Microsolena foliosa1 Roniewicz 1976 stony coral
Microsolena tuberosa1 Michelin 1843 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Dimorphastrea dubia1 Fromentel 1861 stony coral
Demospongiae
 Agelasida - Milleporellidae
Shuqraia heybroeki Hudson 1954 demosponge
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Astartidae
Opisoma sp. Stoliczka 1871 clam
 Hippuritida - Diceratidae
Diceras sp. Lamarck 1805 rudist
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Trichites sp. Lhuyd 1760 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Velopecten sp." = Eopecten, Chlamys sp., Aequipecten sp.
"Velopecten sp." = Eopecten Douvillé 1897 scallop
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop
Aequipecten sp. Fischer 1886 scallop
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Munidopsidae
Cracensigillatus acutirostris2 Moericke 1889 decapod