Plopis Mountains, Simleu Basin, Salaj (Miocene of Romania)

Also known as Reef 3576

Where: Romania (47.1° N, 22.7° E: paleocoordinates 46.6° N, 22.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)

• Sarmatian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• serpulid-bryozoan-microbial bioherms, 2-10 m thick

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: I. I. Bucur, E. Nicorici, I. Huica and B. Ionesi. 1992. Calcareous microfacies in the Sarmatian deposits from Romania. Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Geologia 37(2):9-16 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 70575: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.03.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Florideophyceae
 Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
Mesophyllum sp.2 Lemoine 1930
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Polyphysaceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimeda sp.1 Lamouroux 1812
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
Pirenella picta horn snail
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Crenellidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Cardiida - Semelidae
Ervilia sp. Turton 1822 clam
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae