Where: Romania (46.9° N, 23.3° E: paleocoordinates 42.4° N, 20.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• "Marl beds with Bryozoans"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified 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 101966: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.01.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Chama granulosa jewel box | |
Cardium "sp. 1" Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Thyasira ignota clam | |
Lucina rectangulata clam | |
"Pecten (Pecten) arcuatus" = Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus, "Chlamys (Chlamys) biarritzensis" = Chlamys biarritzensis, Spondylus buchi
"Pecten (Pecten) arcuatus" = Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus Schlotheim 1813 scallop
"Chlamys (Chlamys) biarritzensis" = Chlamys biarritzensis d'Archiac 1846 scallop var. subtripartitus
Spondylus buchi Philippi 1846 scallop |