Nadasel (Oligocene of Romania)

Where: Romania (46.8° N, 23.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.6° N, 21.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mera Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• group of beds-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 102028: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.01.2011

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
Tympanotonos trochleare horn snail
var. diaboli
 Cerithioidea - Diastomatidae
Diastoma costellatum Lamarck 1804 snail
var. martini
 Sorbeoconcha - Campanilidae
"Cerithium (Thericium) globulosum" = Thericium
"Cerithium (Thericium) globulosum" = Thericium snail
Bivalvia
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina sp. Bruguière 1797 clam
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
 Cardiida - Cyrenidae
Cyrena (Cyrena) convexa clam
var. vapincana
 Arcida - Limopsidae
"Limopsis (Pectunculina) granulata" = Limopsis
"Limopsis (Pectunculina) granulata" = Limopsis clam