Iara: Bartonian, Romania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita (Venericardia) aizyensis (Deshayes 1860)
recombined as Venericardia aizyensis
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Galeodes (Pugilina) subcarinata
replaced by Melongena
see common names

Geography
Country:Romania
Coordinates: 46.6° North, 23.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.0° North, 20.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Bartonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Bartonian
Age range of interval:41.30000 - 38.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Capusu
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Rusu 2004: The Gryphaea (=Sokolowia) eszterhazyi Beds are included in the Capusu Formation of Bartonian age.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandy marl
Secondary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: sandy marls with bioclastic limestone and marlstone intercalations
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Geology comments: inner shelf of an open sea, with a tidal regime
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:101874
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-01-04 19:53:12 Last modified:2011-01-10 06:08:01
Access level:the public Released:2011-01-04 19:53:12
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

34618. N. Meszaros. 1957. Fauna de moluste a depozitelor Paleogene din nord-vestul Transilvaniei [Molluscan fauna from Paleogene deposits from NW Transilvania]. Biblioteca de Geologie si Paleontologie 1:1-174 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

34710 A. Rusu, D. Brotea, and M. C. Melinte. 2004. Biostratigraphy of the Bartonian deposits from Gilau area (NW Transylvania, Romania). Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 4:441-454 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/L. Eccles]