Templom-hegy, Villány (Jurassic of Hungary)

Where: Hungary (45.9° N, 18.5° E: paleocoordinates 28.5° N, 25.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Altáró Member (Villány Formation), Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• Upper Bathonian Retrocostatum and Discus Zones; lowermost part of the Villány Formation, informally called "Altáró Member"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified, sandy grainstone

• 8-10 cm thick lense of sandy calcarenite with a rich ammonoid and bivalve fauna

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Vörös. 2004. Bathonian brachiopods from Villany (South Hungary). Fragmenta Palaeontologica Hungarica 22:1-8 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92056: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.10.2009, edited by Daniel Wellmanns

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia sp. Linnaeus 1758 jingle
 Pectinida - Limidae
Ctenostreon sp. Eichwald 1862 file clam
Ctenostreon proboscideum Sowerby 1820 file clam
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814 file clam
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop
 Carditida - Astartidae
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
 Terebratulida - Loboidothyrididae
 Terebratulida - Lissajousithyrididae
 Rhynchonellida - Acanthothirididae
Acanthorhynchia cf. panacanthina Buckman and Walker 1889
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
Lacunaerhynchia palma Szajnocha 1879