Gerennavar Section, Gerennavar Limestone, Bükk Mountains (Triassic to of Hungary)

Where: Hungary (48.1° N, 20.5° E: paleocoordinates 0.8° S, 32.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gerennavar Limestone Formation, Griesbachian to Griesbachian (251.9 - 251.2 Ma)

• middle and upper part of Gerennavar Limestone Formation; Claraia wangi-griesbachi, Claraia clarai and Claraia aurita zones

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified grainstone and lithified wackestone

• thick-bedded well-sorted oolites or pure bioclastic grainstones and thin- to thick-bedded, dark gray laminated or massive finely crystalline limestones (mudstones, wackestones)

Size classes: macrofossils, 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 61369: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.06.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
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Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Anchignathodontidae
Hindeodus parvus Kozur 1975 conodont
Isarcicella isarcica Huckriede 1964 conodont
 Ozarkodinida - Ellisoniidae
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Claraiidae
? Claraia clarai Emmrich 1844 scallop
Claraia aurita Hauer 1850 scallop
Claraia ex gr. aurita Hauer 1850 scallop
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Ostracoda
 Myodocopida - Polycopidae
Polycope sp. ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Liuzhinia sp. Zheng 1976 ostracod
Liuzhinia parva Wei 1981 ostracod
Bairdia sp. M'Coy 1844 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bythocytheridae
 Palaeocopida - Hollinellidae
Hollinella tingi Patte 1935 ostracod