Where: Romania (45.4° N, 22.1° E: paleocoordinates 44.8° N, 21.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Badenian (13.7 - 12.7 Ma)
• 4 m thick level in the lower half of the marine complex
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; fine-grained, micaceous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. Tita. 2000. Study on Miocene corals (Scleractinia) from Delinesti (Romania). Travaux du Museum National d'Histoire naturelle Grigore Antipa 42:373-382 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 123135: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.01.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Orbulina suturalis Bronnimann 1951 | |
Florideophyceae | |
"Lithothamnium sp." = Lithothamnion
"Lithothamnium sp." = Lithothamnion Heydrich 1897 | |
Anthozoa | |
"Acanthocyathus transilvanicus" = Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) transilvanicus
"Acanthocyathus transilvanicus" = Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) transilvanicus Reuss 1871 stony coral | |
Flabellum roissyanum Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral | |
Balanophyllia sp. Wood 1844 stony coral | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella badensis turret shell | |
"Ancilla glandiformis" = Amalda glandiformis
"Ancilla glandiformis" = Amalda glandiformis Lamarck 1810 snail | |
Clavatula asperulata snail | |
Conus ponderous cone shell | |
Bivalvia | |
"Anadara diluvii" = Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii
"Anadara diluvii" = Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii Lamarck 1805 clam | |
"Venus multilamella" = Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella
"Venus multilamella" = Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella Lamarck 1818 venus clam | |
Beguina diversicosta clam | |
Gymnolaemata | |