Bahna, marl chalk stones: Badenian, Romania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae
Syzygophyllia brevis Reuss 1860
6 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Faviidae
Favia magnifica Reuss 1871
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys seniensis
1 specimen
sub. sp. lomnicki
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita (Venericardia) partschi
6 specimens
original and current combination Venericardia
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella (Lamarck 1818)
6 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula (Varicorbula) gibba (Oliva 1792)
1 specimen
Scaphopoda
Dentalium (Entalis) badensis
2 specimens
original and current combination Entalis
Gastropoda - Campanilidae
Cerithium vulgatum Bruguière 1789
6 specimens
recombined as Cerithium (Thericium) vulgatum
sub. sp. europaeum
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Marginella sp. Lamarck 1799
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Ancillariidae
Ancilla (Baryspira) glandiformis (Lamarck 1810)
7 specimens
recombined as Amalda glandiformis
Ancilla obsoleta (Brocchi 1814)
1 specimen
recombined as Amalda obsoleta
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus puschi Michelotti 1857
1 specimen
recombined as Plagioconus puschi
Conus (Cheliconus) fuscocingulatus
2 specimens
spelled with current rank as Conus (Chelyoconus)
Conus (Lithoconus) mercati
1 specimen
Conus (Conolithus) dujardini Deshayes 1845
2 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Columbella (Mitrella) petersi
1 specimen
original and current combination Mitrella
Gastropoda - Pediculariidae
Cypraea (Cypraeovula) eratoformis Hoernes and Auinger 1880
1 specimen
recombined as Pseudocypraea eratoformis
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella (Haustator) vermicularis (Brocchi 1814)
3 specimens
Turritella subangulata
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Romania
Coordinates: 44.8° North, 22.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.2° North, 22.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Serravallian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Badenian
Age range of interval:13.65000 - 12.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Curchia
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: marl-limy level of the lower sandy horizon
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified chalk
Lithology description: limy marl, violet-blue whitish, friable and fossil
Environment:deep subtidal shelf
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:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:86908
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Nimke
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-02-24 01:56:59 Last modified:2009-02-24 03:56:59
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

29239. R. Tita. 2007. Commets on the Badenian Fauna (Middle Miocene) from Bahna (Southern Carpathians, Romania). Travaux du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle Grigore Antipa 50:543-554 [W. Kiessling/S. Jankowski/P. Wagner]