Cataloi outrop, Tulcea Nappe, North Dobrujda (Triassic of Romania)

Where: Romania (45.1° N, 28.7° E: paleocoordinates 18.6° N, 31.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cataloi Formation, Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; gray, yellow marl and gray limestone

• There are grey-greyish marls, which become yellowish-greyish in colour after alteration; in the marl body, lens of hard greyish limestones, sometimes easily sandstoned are known. The fossil records proceeded from these marls

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: I. Turculet. 2009. New data about the Ammonite fauna from the Triassic developed in the Wengen facies at Cataloi (North Dobrujda orogen). Geologie Tomul LV 2:45-50 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 142737: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 15.04.2013, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Posidoniidae
"Posidonia wengensis" = Bositra wengensis
"Posidonia wengensis" = Bositra wengensis Wissmann 1841 oyster
 Ostreida - Halobiidae
Daonella (Arzelella) indica Bittner 1899 oyster
Daonella (Loemmelella) sturi Benecke 1868 oyster
"Daonella (Pichlerella) pichleri" = Daonella (Pichlerella) pichleri Mojsisovics 1874 oyster
"Daonella (Pichlerella) noduligera" = Daonella (Pichlerella) pichleri Mojsisovics 1874 oyster
Halobia fluxa Mojsisovics 1874 oyster
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Stefaninia ogilviae Bittner 1895 pearl oyster
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Tibetitidae
Pterotoceras aff. arthaberi Welter 1915 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Sageceratidae
Sageceras haidingeri Hauer 1847 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Aplococeratidae
Aplococeras sp. Hyatt 1900 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Trachyceratidae
Asklepioceras sp., Arpadites sp., "Trachyceras (Protrachyceras) sp." = Protrachyceras
Asklepioceras sp. Renz 1911 ceratite
(gr. A. helenae RENZ, 1910)
Arpadites sp. Mojsisovics 1879 ceratite
"Trachyceras (Protrachyceras) sp." = Protrachyceras Mojsisovics 1893 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Haloritidae
Barrandeites sp. Mojsisovics 1893 ceratite
(gr. B. tubina (DITTMAR, 1866))