Rohia: Priabonian, Romania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Elenchus cf. rhenanus
Gastropoda - Pleurotomariidae
Pleurotomaria sp. Defrance 1826
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Cepatia cepacea (Lamarck 1804)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Clavilithes (Clavilithes) cf. solanderi
Gastropoda - Seraphsidae
Terebellum (Seraphs) sopitum
original and current combination Seraphs
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp. (Lamarck 1801)
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys (Aequipecten) subdiscors
original and current combination Aequipecten
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Malleidae
Vulsella (Vulsella) dubia
var. transilvanica
see common names

Geography
Country:Romania
Coordinates: 47.4° North, 23.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.9° North, 21.2° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Priabonian
Age range of interval:37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "Calcarele Eocene superioare"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
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:102032
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2011-01-07 01:48:51 Last modified:2011-01-06 08:48:51
Access level:the public Released:2011-01-07 01:48:51
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]