Where: Romania (45.0° N, 28.9° E: paleocoordinates 17.4° N, 33.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bithynian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• The Bithynian age of the brachiopods is properly documented by a rich assemblage of ammonoids, with species of Acrochordiceras, Platycuccoceras, Intornites, Nevadisculites, Phyllocladiscites, Ussurites, Gymnites and other genera.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Museum of the Laboratory of Palaeontology in the University of Bucharest

Primary reference: E. Grădinaru and M. Gaetani. 2019. Upper Spathian to Bithynian (Lower to Middle Triassic) brachiopods from North Dobrogea (Romania). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 125:91-123 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 199556: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.01.2019

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