Negaia Hill, Cimp Moti, Apuseni Mountains (Triassic of Romania)

Also known as Reef 94

Where: Romania (46.4° N, 22.5° E: paleocoordinates 18.9° N, 23.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, fine-grained, gray wackestone and lithified reef rocks

• components are peloids, bioclasts and shelldetrirus

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: bulk, peel or thin section,

• Material deposited at the Institute of Paleontology, University of Erlangen

Primary reference: P. Riedel. 1990. Riffbiotope im Karn und Nor (Obertrias) der Tethys: Entwicklung, Einschnitte und Diversitätsmuster [Reef biotopes of the Carnian and Norian (Upper Triassic) in the Thetys: Development, incisions and diversitypatterns]. Ph. D. thesis - Erlangen 1-96 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 60388: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 12.05.2006, edited by Uta Merkel

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Foraminifera
  -
Ophthalmidium sp. Kübler and Zwingli 1870
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Nubeculariidae
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Solenopora sp. Dybowski 1877
Calcarea
 Calcaronea - Stellispongiidae
Peronidella sp. Hinde 1893 calcareous sponge
Demospongiae
 Agelasida - Sebargasiidae
Amblysiphonella gradinarui n. sp. Riedel and Senowbari-Daryan 1987 demosponge
 Verticillitida - Colospongiidae
Colospongia sp. Laube 1865 demosponge
 Lithistida - Anthaspidellidae
Stromatomorpha sp. Frech 1890 demosponge
Hydrozoa
 Spongiomorphida - Spongiomorphidae
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Reimaniphylliidae
"Montlivaltia norica" = Distichophyllia norica, Retiophyllia sp.
"Montlivaltia norica" = Distichophyllia norica Frech 1890 stony coral
Retiophyllia sp. Cuif 1966 stony coral
Radiomura
  -
Radiomura cautica Senowbari-Daryan and Schaefer 1979
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Arcestidae
"Pararcestes sp." = Arcestes (Pararcestes)
"Pararcestes sp." = Arcestes (Pararcestes) Mojsisovics 1893 ceratite
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Dyscritellidae