Vălenii Șomcutei locality, MF2‑oolitic packstone/grainstone (Miocene of Romania)

Where: Romania (47.5° N, 23.5° E: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 23.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Badenian (13.7 - 12.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; grainstone and packstone

• packstone/grainstone containing single and compound radial-fibrous ooids, aggregate

•grains and peloids

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Chelaru, E. Săsăran, T. Tămaș, R. Bălc, I. I. Bucur and G. Pleș. 2019. Middle Miocene carbonate facies with rhodoliths from the NW Transylvanian Basin (Vălenii Șomcutei Cave, Romania). Facies 65(4) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 198871: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 16.01.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Globigerinoidea - Globigerinidae
Globigerinoides sp. Cushman 1927
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Alveolinidae
Alveolinidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
 Miliolida - Hauerinidae
Triloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Pyrgo sp. Defrance 1824
Florideophyceae
 Sporolithales - Corallinophycidae
Sporolithon ptychoides Heydrich 1897
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Jania sp. Lamoroux 1812
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Polyphysaceae