Negaia Hill, Cimp Moti, Apuseni Mountains: Norian, Romania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cyanophyceae - Garwoodiaceae
Baccanella floriformis Pantic 1971
Stenolaemata - Trepostomida - Dyscritellidae
Dyscritella sp.
Cephalopoda - Ceratitida - Arcestidae
Pararcestes sp. Mojsisovics 1893
spelled with current rank as Arcestes (Pararcestes)
unclassified
Radiomura cautica Senowbari-Daryan and Schaefer 1979
Hydrozoa - Spongiomorphida - Spongiomorphidae
Spongiomorpha sp. Frech 1890
Spongiomorpha gibbosa Frech 1890
Spongiomorpha acyclica Frech 1890
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Reimaniphylliidae
Retiophyllia sp. Cuif 1966
Montlivaltia norica Frech 1890
recombined as Distichophyllia norica
Demospongiae - Verticillitida - Colospongiidae
Colospongia sp. Laube 1865
Demospongiae - Agelasida - Sebargasiidae
Amblysiphonella gradinarui n. sp. Riedel and Senowbari-Daryan 1987
Riedel and Senowbari-Daryan 1987
Demospongiae - Anthaspidellidae
Stromatomorpha sp. Frech 1890
Calcarea - Calcaronea - Stellispongiidae
Peronidella sp. Hinde 1893
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Nubeculariidae
Nubecularia sp.
unclassified
Ophthalmidium sp. Kübler and Zwingli 1870
Rhodophyceae - Solenoporaceae
Solenopora sp. Dybowski 1877
see common names

Geography
Country:Romania
Coordinates: 46.4° North, 22.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:18.9° North, 23.9° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
Stage:Norian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 4
Key time interval:Norian
Age range of interval:227.00000 - 208.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:Negaia Hill
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,gray lithified wackestone
Secondary lithology: lithified "reef rocks"
Lithology description: components are peloids, bioclasts and shelldetrirus
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Abundance in sediment:abundant
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils,some microfossils
Collection methods:bulk,peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: Material deposited at the Institute of Paleontology, University of Erlangen
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 94
Database number:60388
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:T. Schossleitner, U. Merkel
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate,micropaleontology
Created:2006-05-12 03:38:35 Last modified:2006-05-15 11:30:43
Access level:the public Released:2006-05-12 03:38:35
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
17340. 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]

Secondary references:

24805 P. Riedel and B. Senowbari-Daryan. 1987. Amblysiphonella gradinarui n. sp. (Porifera) aus der Obertrias (Lac 1-2) des Vascau-Plateaus (Rumänien) [Amblysiphonella gradinarui n. sp. (Porifera) from the Upper Triassic (Lacian 1-2) of the Vascau Plateau (Romania)]. Geologija 30:23-29 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]