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