Gerennavar Section, Gerennavar Limestone, transitional bedset, Bükk Mountains (Permian of Hungary)

Where: Hungary (48.1° N, 20.5° E: paleocoordinates 1.1° S, 32.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Clarkina meishanensis conodont zone, "transitional bedset" Member (Gerennavar Limestone Formation), Changhsingian (254.2 - 252.2 Ma)

• Uppermost Changhsingian, post-extinction, equivalent of Clarkina meishanensis conodont zone.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: peritidal; lithified limestone

• thin- to thick-bedded, dark gray, fine laminated limestones, 6-7 m thick, alternation of microbial lamination and fine even lamination, with silt and sand-sized biodetritus

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: K. Hips and P. Pelikan. 2002. Lower Triassic shallow marine succession in the Bükk Mountains, NE Hungary. Geologica Carpathica 53(6):351-367 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61368: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.06.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Ellisoniidae
 Ozarkodinida - Anchignathodontidae
Holothuroidea
 Apodida - Chiridotidae
Theelia dzulfaensis sea cucumber
Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Indivisiidae
Indivisia buekkensis Kozur 1985 ostracod
 Podocopida - Cytheruridae
Judahella bogschi Kozur 1985 ostracod
Foraminifera
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Ammodiscus sp. Reuss 1862
 Palaeotextularoidea - Biseriamminidae
 Fusulinina - Earlandiidae
 Fusulinina - Pachyphloiidae
Pachyphloia sp. Lange 1925
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Hemigordiopsidae
Agathammina pusilla Geinitz 1848