Where: Romania (46.9° N, 23.3° E: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 21.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mera Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 102020: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 06.01.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella (Haustator) planispira Wood 1842 turret shell | |
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Potamides (Exechstoma) scalaroides horn snail | |
"Natica (Tectinatica) pasinii" = Tectonatica pasinii
"Natica (Tectinatica) pasinii" = Tectonatica pasinii Bayan 1870 moon snail | |
"Fusus (Fusus) dissimilis" = Coluzea dissimilis
"Fusus (Fusus) dissimilis" = Coluzea dissimilis Deshayes 1864 snail | |
Rimella multiplicata true conch | |
Bivalvia | |
Cardium transilvanicum cockle | |
Pitar (Callista) villanovae venus clam |