Rohia (Oligocene of Romania)

Where: Romania (47.4° N, 23.9° E: paleocoordinates 45.2° N, 22.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• "Orizontul argilelor si a marnelor cenusii cu Variamussium fallax"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; shale and 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 101965: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.01.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana perovalis pointed nut clam
 Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
"Variamussium fallax" = Parvamussium
"Variamussium fallax" = Parvamussium mud scallop
 Lucinida - Thyasiridae
Thyasira sp. Lamarck 1818 clam