Where: Romania (47.4° N, 23.9° E: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 21.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• "Calcarele Eocene superioare"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
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 102032: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.01.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Pleurotomaria sp. Defrance 1826 snail | |
"Terebellum (Seraphs) sopitum" = Seraphs
"Terebellum (Seraphs) sopitum" = Seraphs snail | |
Cepatia cepacea Lamarck 1804 moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel | |
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"Chlamys (Aequipecten) subdiscors" = Aequipecten
"Chlamys (Aequipecten) subdiscors" = Aequipecten scallop |