Where: Romania (47.4° N, 23.9° E: paleocoordinates 45.2° N, 22.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)
• "Orizontul argilelor si a marnelor cenusii cu Variamussium fallax"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; shale and marl
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: N. Meszaros. 1957. Fauna de moluste a depozitelor Paleogene din nord-vestul Transilvaniei [Molluscan fauna from Paleogene deposits from NW Transilvania]. Biblioteca de Geologie si Paleontologie 1:1-174 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 101965: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.01.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
"Variamussium fallax" = Parvamussium
"Variamussium fallax" = Parvamussium mud scallop | |
Thyasira sp. Lamarck 1818 clam | |
Nuculana perovalis pointed nut clam |