Hidegkut section, Bed 38 (Triassic of Hungary)

Where: Hungary (47.0° N, 17.8° E: paleocoordinates 0.3° N, 30.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Member (Csopak Marl Formation), Spathian (251.3 - 247.2 Ma)

• Presence of Tirolites in the lowest beds of the section indicates a Spathian age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; red siltstone

• deposited in a quiet subtidal zone below the fair-weather base

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: C. Broglio Loriga, F. Goczan, J. Haas, K. Lenner, C. Neri, A.S. Oravecz, R. Posenato, I. Szabo, and A.M. Toth. 1990. The lower Triassic sequences of the Dolomites (Italy) and transdanubian mid-mountains (Hungary) and their correlation. Memorie di Scienze Geologiche 42:41-103 [L. Villier/J. Millet/J. Millet]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 139989: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 26.02.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
Neoschizodus ovatus Goldfuss 1838 clam
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Bakevellia exporrecta Lepsius 1878 oyster
Bakevellia gr. exporrecta
Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Longobarditidae
Dalmatites morlaccus Kittl 1903 ceratite