Quarry 2, Cimp Moti, Apuseni Mountains (Triassic of Romania)

Where: Romania (46.4° N, 22.5° E: paleocoordinates 18.9° N, 23.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Norian (228.0 - 208.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, shelly/skeletal reef rocks and lithified wackestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: bulk, peel or thin section,

• Material deposited at the Institute of Paleontology, University of Erlangen

Primary reference: P. Riedel. 1990. Riffbiotope im Karn und Nor (Obertrias) der Tethys: Entwicklung, Einschnitte und Diversitätsmuster [Reef biotopes of the Carnian and Norian (Upper Triassic) in the Thetys: Development, incisions and diversitypatterns]. Ph. D. thesis - Erlangen 1-96 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 60468: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 16.05.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Stenolaemata
 Trepostomida - Dyscritellidae
Hydrozoa
 Spongiomorphida - Spongiomorphidae
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Reimaniphylliidae
Retiophyllia sp. Cuif 1966 stony coral
Retiophyllia clathrata Emmrich 1853 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
Demospongiae
 Verticillitida - Colospongiidae
Colospongia sp. Laube 1865 demosponge
Radiomura
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Radiomura cautica Senowbari-Daryan and Schaefer 1979
Foraminifera
 Textulariina - Coscinophragmatidae