Tompa, near Piski (Miocene of Romania)

Where: Romania (45.8° N, 23.0° E: paleocoordinates 46.2° N, 22.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sarmatian (12.7 - 11.6 Ma)

• Middle Miocene, middle Sarmatian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• Transylvanian basin, a retro foreland basin of the Carpathian mountain belt.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Museums zu Deva

Primary reference: A. Pongrácz. 1928. Die fossilen Insekten von Ungarn, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Entwicklung der europäischen Insekten-fauna. Annales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 25:91-194 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 156755: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.05.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Blattodea - Termopsidae
Termopsis transsylvanica n. sp. Pongrácz 1928 damp wood termite
Termopsis mallaszi n. sp. Pongrácz 1928 damp wood termite
 Diptera - Tipulidae
"Tipula lineata" = Tipula heeriana
"Tipula lineata" = Tipula heeriana Cockerell 1909 crane fly