Piski (Hungarian Geologischen Anstalt coll.) (Miocene of Romania)

Where: Romania (45.8° N, 23.0° E: paleocoordinates 46.2° N, 22.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sarmatian (12.7 - 11.6 Ma)

• Middle Miocene, middle Sarmatian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified, blue, calcareous shale

• Transylvanian basin, a retro foreland basin of the Carpathian mountain belt.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Königlich ungarische Geologische Anstalt

Primary reference: A. Pongrácz. 1928. Die fossilen Insekten von Ungarn, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Entwicklung der europäischen Insekten-fauna. Annales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 25:91-194 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156760: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 31.05.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Show authors, comments, and common names
Insecta
 Hymenoptera - Blasticotomidae
Protenthredo transsylvanicus n. gen. n. sp.
Protenthredo transsylvanicus n. gen. n. sp. Pongrácz 1928 wood wasp
 Hymenoptera - Apidae
Apidae indet.
Apidae indet. Latreille 1802 bee
 Hymenoptera - Formicidae
Cataulacus sp., Formica sp.
Cataulacus sp. Smith 1853 ant
Formica sp. Linnaeus 1758 ant