Rohia (Eocene of Romania)

Where: Romania (47.4° N, 23.9° E: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 21.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• "Calcarele Eocene superioare"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

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 102032: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.01.2011

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Gastropoda
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
Pleurotomaria sp. Defrance 1826 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Cepatia cepacea Lamarck 1804 moon snail
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Seraphsidae
"Terebellum (Seraphs) sopitum" = Seraphs
"Terebellum (Seraphs) sopitum" = Seraphs snail
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chlamys (Aequipecten) subdiscors" = Aequipecten
"Chlamys (Aequipecten) subdiscors" = Aequipecten scallop
 Ostreida - Malleidae
Vulsella (Vulsella) dubia oyster
var. transilvanica