Tokod (Padrag Marl) (Eocene of Hungary)

Where: Hungary (47.7° N, 18.7° E: paleocoordinates 42.4° N, 16.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Padrag Marl Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, gray, silty marl

• shallow bathyal
• grey, silty marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Department of Geology and Paleontology of the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest (inventory numbers 2006.16.1-2006.48.1)

Primary reference: M. A. Bitner and A. Dulai. 2008. Eocene micromorphic brachiopods from north-western Hungary. Geologica Carpathica 59(1):31-43 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 161773: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 11.09.2014, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Megathyrididae
Argyrotheca tokodensis n. sp. Bitner and Dulai 2008
52 complete, 21 ventral and 51 dorsal valves. Some specimens are crushed, many are broken, there are also many fragments
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Cancridae
Cancer bockhii n. sp. crab