Hidegkut section, Bed 51 (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; gray limestone

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

Size class: 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 140002: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 26.02.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
Costatoria costata Zenker 1833 clam