Gilau Mountains (Cretaceous to of Romania)

Where: Romania (46.7° N, 23.5° E: paleocoordinates 30.5° N, 23.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Gosau Group, Late/Upper Santonian to Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 70.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; conglomerate and limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: I. Bucur and R. Urian. 1989. Calcareous algae (Rhodophyceae) in the Upper Cretaceous deposits from the north-eastern border of the Gilau Mountains. Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Geologia (34)33-38 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 147177: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 05.07.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Pycnoporidium lobatum Yabe and Toyama 1928
Elianella elegans Pfender and Basse 1947
Florideophyceae
 Sporolithales - Corallinophycidae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
 Gigartinales - Rhodymeniophycidae
Foraminifera
 Globigerinaceae - Globotruncanidae
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
unclassified
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