Bed 203; Section C - Bersek Quarry [Bersek Marl]: Late/Upper Hauterivian, Hungary
collected by Fulop 1963-1964

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Mesohibolitidae
Mesohibolitidae indet. Nerodenko 1983
2 specimens
Hibolithes cf. jaculiformis (Shvetsov 1913)
13 specimens
Cephalopoda - Hamulinidae
Anahamulina sp. Hyatt 1900
3 specimens
Cephalopoda - Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phylloceras infundibulum (d'Orbigny 1840)
13 specimens
recombined as Phyllopachyceras infundibulum
Phylloceras sp. Suess 1865
1 specimen
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
Pseudothurmannia ohmi (Winkler 1868)
2 specimens
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras sp. Suess 1865
8 specimens
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Holcodiscidae
Jeanthieuloyites sp. Cooper 1981
4 specimens
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Plesiospitidiscus sp.
11 specimens
Barremites sp.
1 specimen
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Bochianitidae
Bochianites neocomiensis (d'Orbigny 1842)
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Hungary
Coordinates: 47.8° North, 18.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.4° North, 26.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Hauterivian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 2
Key time interval:Late/Upper Hauterivian
Age range of interval:136.40000 - 130.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Bersek Marl
Local section:Bersek Quarry Local bed:203
Local order:top to bottom
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Bersek Marl Formation, which is unconformably overlain by the Labatlan Sandstone Fm. AGE: Late Hauterivian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From bed 203, at very top of formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified marl
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Marl? LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens and taphonomic description.
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Not discussed in text.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:preferred
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils,ichnofossils
Collection methods:bulk,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collectors:Fulop Collection dates:1963-1964
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Fülöp, 1963-1964. REPOSITORY: Hungarian Geological Survey.
Taxonomic list comments: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.
Metadata
Database number:86350
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-01-31 16:15:33 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2009-01-31 16:15:33
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

29102. 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]

Secondary references:

23858 A. J. W. Hendy. 2007. Circum-Pacific Late Cenozoic Paleobiogeography: Consideration of latitudinal gradients, provincialism and beta diversity (Unpublished taxonomic opinions). [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]