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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Circophyllia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Rhizangia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Gastropoda | |
Cerithium corvinum Brongniart 1862 cerith snail
Tympanotonus calcaratus Brongniart 1823 cerith snail
Tympanotonus hungaricus Zittel 1862 cerith snail | |
Diastoma roncanum snail | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Ampullina sp. FĂ©russac 1822 snail
Ampullina perusta Defrance 1823 snail | |
Cantharus brongniartianus Orbigny 1850 true whelk | |
Bivalvia | |
"Ostrea (Cubitostrea) plicata" = Cubitostrea plicata Solander 1766 oyster
Ostrea supranummulitica Zittel 1862 oyster
Ostrea roncana Partsch 1870 oyster | |
Ostracoda | |
Pterygocythere jonesi ostracod |