Csordakut Basin, Gerecse Mountains, bed 8 (Eocene of Hungary)

Where: Hungary (47.6° N, 18.4° E: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 16.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Eocene (48.6 - 37.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: P. Ozsvart. 1999. Middle Eocene foraminifer, mollusc and ostracod fauna from the Csordakut Basin (Gerecse Mountains, Hungary): palaeoenvironments recorded in a transgressive sequence. Annales Universitatis Scientiarum Budapestinensis, Sectio Geologica 32:73-135 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 171635: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 15.07.2015

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Mussidae
Circophyllia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Rhizangiidae
Rhizangia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Cerithium corvinum Brongniart 1862 cerith snail
Tympanotonus calcaratus Brongniart 1823 cerith snail
Tympanotonus hungaricus Zittel 1862 cerith snail
 Cerithioidea - Diastomatidae
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
Ampullina sp. FĂ©russac 1822 snail
Ampullina perusta Defrance 1823 snail
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Cantharus brongniartianus Orbigny 1850 true whelk
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea (Cubitostrea) plicata" = Cubitostrea plicata, Ostrea supranummulitica, Ostrea roncana
"Ostrea (Cubitostrea) plicata" = Cubitostrea plicata Solander 1766 oyster
Ostrea supranummulitica Zittel 1862 oyster
Ostrea roncana Partsch 1870 oyster
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Brachycytheridae