Turnu Rosu (Eocene to of Romania)

Also known as Turnu Roșu; Porcești, Portsest, Portsesd; near Sibiu town

Where: Romania (45.6° N, 24.3° E: paleocoordinates 43.9° N, 19.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Eocene to Middle Eocene (48.6 - 33.9 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. P. Dica. 2002. A review of the Eocene diodontids and labrids from Transylvania. Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Geologia 47(2):37-46 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 186852: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 05.07.2017, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
Gavialoidea indet. Brochu 1997 crocodilian
collections of the Natural History Museum, Sibiu
Actinopteri
 Labriformes - Labridae
 Tetraodontiformes - Diodontidae
"Chilomycterus hilgendorfi" = Progymnodon hilgendorfi
"Chilomycterus hilgendorfi" = Progymnodon hilgendorfi Dames 1883