Bed 212; Section C - Bersek Quarry [Bersek Marl] (Cretaceous of Hungary)

Where: Hungary (47.8° N, 18.5° E: paleocoordinates 29.4° N, 26.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bersek Marl Formation, Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Bersek Marl Formation, which is unconformably overlain by the Labatlan Sandstone Fm. AGE: Late Hauterivian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From bed 212, near top of formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified marl

• ENVIRONMENT: Not discussed in text.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Marl? LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens and taphonomic description.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collected by Fulop in 1963-1964

Collection methods: bulk,

• COLLECTOR: Fülöp, 1963-1964. REPOSITORY: Hungarian Geological Survey.

Primary reference: I. Fözy and N. M. M. Janssen. 2009. Integrated Lower Cretaceous biostratigraphy of the Bersek Quarry, Gerecse Mountains, Transdanubian Range. Hungary. Cretaceous Research 30:78-92 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86360: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.02.2009

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for Ammonoidea; belemnites, bivalves, brachiopods, solitary corals and trace fossils also present, but not listed. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but identified by taxonomic authorities on Ammonoidea, to species resolution.
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Plesiospitidiscus sp.
 Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
Crioceratites duvalii
Crioceratites duvalii Léveillé 1837 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras sp., Lytoceras subfimbriatum
Lytoceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite
Lytoceras subfimbriatum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Belemnitida - Duvaliidae
Pseudobelus brevis
 Belemnitida - Mesohibolitidae
Hibolithes cf. josephinae, Hibolithes inae
Hibolithes inae belemnite