Vălenii Șomcutei locality, MF4‑rhodolith rudstone (Miocene of Romania)
Where: Romania (47.5° N, 23.5° E: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 23.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Badenian (13.7 - 12.7 Ma)
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; rudstone
• densely packed rhodolithic level of approximately 3 m in thickness, showing a gradual transition from coralline algal rudstone.The rhodoliths are dispersed in a bioclastic packstone/grainstone matrix
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. Chelaru, E. Săsăran, T. Tămaș, R. Bălc, I. I. Bucur and G. Pleș. 2019. Middle Miocene carbonate facies with rhodoliths from the NW Transylvanian Basin (Vălenii Șomcutei Cave, Romania). Facies 65(4) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 198873: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 16.01.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Foraminifera | |
Rotaliidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839 | |
Globothalamea | |
Acervulinidae indet. Schultze 1854 | |
Foraminifera | |
Florideophyceae | |
Mesophyllum cf. erubescens, Mesophyllum curtum, Mesophyllum alternans, Lithothamnion "sp. 1", Lithothamnion cf. minervae
Mesophyllum cf. erubescens Foslie 1900
Mesophyllum curtum Hrabovsky et al. 2016
Mesophyllum alternans Foslie 1907
Lithothamnion "sp. 1" Heydrich 1897
Lithothamnion cf. minervae Basso 1995 | |
Peyssonnelia antiqua, "Lithophyllum duplex" = Titanoderma duplex, "Lithophyllum pustulatum" = Titanoderma pustulatum, Lithophyllum incrustans, Spongites fruticulosus, Spongites "sp. 1"
Peyssonnelia antiqua Johnson 1964
"Lithophyllum duplex" = Titanoderma duplex Pisera and Studencki 1989
"Lithophyllum pustulatum" = Titanoderma pustulatum Lamouroux 1816
Lithophyllum incrustans Philippi 1837
Spongites "sp. 1" Kützing 1841 | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Polychaeta | |
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835 |