Strungulita Pass, Bucegi Mountains (Jurassic of Romania)

Where: Romania (45.4° N, 25.5° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 32.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Strungulita Formation, Bajocian (170.3 - 168.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, calcareous sandstone and lithified grainstone

• calcareous sandstones, calcarenite, alternance of pelite with siltitic interlayers and limonitic concretions

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: I. Lazar. 2004. The Jurassic bivalve fauna from the western side of the Bucegi Mountains, part 1 subclasses Palaeotaxodonta and Pteriomorphia (Orders Arcoida, Pterioida, Limoida). Acta Palaeontologica Romaniae 4:217-231 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122238: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.12.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria plana Morris and Lycett 1854 pearl oyster
 Ostreida - Malleidae
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium (Entolium) corneolum Young and Bird 1828 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus Schlotheim 1813 scallop
Radulopecten vagans Sowerby 1826 scallop
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
"Grammatodon (Grammatodon) concinnus" = Grammatodon concinnus
"Grammatodon (Grammatodon) concinnus" = Grammatodon concinnus Phillips 1829 clam
 Arcida - Arcidae
Eonavicula minuta Sowerby 1824 clam