Where: Romania (44.8° N, 22.5° E: paleocoordinates 44.2° N, 22.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Curchia Formation, Badenian (13.7 - 12.7 Ma)
• marl-limy level of the lower sandy horizon
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified chalk
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 86908: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Madeleine Nimke on 24.02.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
"Dentalium (Entalis) badensis" = Entalis
"Dentalium (Entalis) badensis" = Entalis tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella subangulata turret shell
Turritella (Haustator) vermicularis Brocchi 1814 turret shell | |
"Cerithium vulgatum" = Cerithium (Thericium) vulgatum
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"Cypraea (Cypraeovula) eratoformis" = Pseudocypraea eratoformis
"Cypraea (Cypraeovula) eratoformis" = Pseudocypraea eratoformis Hoernes and Auinger 1880 snail | |
Marginella sp. Lamarck 1799 margin shell | |
"Ancilla (Baryspira) glandiformis" = Amalda glandiformis, "Ancilla obsoleta" = Amalda obsoleta
"Ancilla (Baryspira) glandiformis" = Amalda glandiformis Lamarck 1810 snail
"Ancilla obsoleta" = Amalda obsoleta Brocchi 1814 snail | |
"Columbella (Mitrella) petersi" = Mitrella
"Columbella (Mitrella) petersi" = Mitrella snail | |
"Conus puschi" = Plagioconus puschi, Conus (Lithoconus) mercati, Conus (Conolithus) dujardini, "Conus (Cheliconus) fuscocingulatus" = Conus (Chelyoconus)
"Conus puschi" = Plagioconus puschi Michelotti 1857 cone shell
Conus (Lithoconus) mercati cone shell
Conus (Conolithus) dujardini Deshayes 1845 cone shell
"Conus (Cheliconus) fuscocingulatus" = Conus (Chelyoconus) cone shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
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Corbula (Varicorbula) gibba Oliva 1792 clam | |
Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella Lamarck 1818 venus clam | |
"Cardita (Venericardia) partschi" = Venericardia
"Cardita (Venericardia) partschi" = Venericardia clam | |
Anthozoa | |
Favia magnifica Reuss 1871 stony coral | |
Syzygophyllia brevis Reuss 1860 stony coral |