Gura Dobrogei Waypoint 122: Late Oxfordian, Romania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Goniodromitidae
Goniodromites sp. Reuss 1858
see common names

Geography
Country:Romania
Coordinates: 44.5° North, 28.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.0° North, 36.4° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5
Key time interval: Late Oxfordian
Age range of interval: 157.9 - 154.8 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Casimcea Member:Visterna
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: middle Oxfordian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified framestone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: microbialite-siliceous sponge deposits
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Abundance in sediment:few
Disassociated major elements:all
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Laboratory of Paleontology, Department of GEology and Paleontology, University of Bucharest, Romania
Metadata
Database number:75603
Authorizer:C. Schweitzer Enterer:C. Schweitzer
Modifier:C. Schweitzer Research group:decapod
Created:2007-10-20 09:55:09 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2007-10-20 09:55:09
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
25530.decapod C. E. Schweitzer, R. M. Feldmann, and I. Lazar. 2007. Decapods from Jurassic (Oxfordian) sponge megafacies of Dobrogea, Romania and reconsideration of Nodoprosopon Beurlen, 1928. Neues Jahrbuch fur Palaontologie Abhandlungen 244(1):99-113 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer]