Mencshely, Cser Hill (preliminary collections) (Triassic of Hungary)

Where: Hungary (47.0° N, 17.7° E: paleocoordinates 1.4° N, 29.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Illyrian (247.2 - 242.0 Ma)

• From the detritus coming from variable rock-types of the Felsőörs Formation and the Vászoly Formation. The ammonoid species point to the presence of several upper Anisian horizons, from the Pseudohungaricum Subzone to the Avisianum Subzone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: A. Vörös. 2018. The Upper Anisian ammonoids of the Balaton Highland (Hungary). Geologica Hungarica, Series Palaeontologica 60:1-241 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 199865: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.02.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ceratitida - Ptychitidae
Flexoptychites flexuosus von Mojsisovics 1882 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Lecanitidae
Lecanites misanii von Mojsisovics 1882 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Noritidae
Norites gondola Mojsisovics 1869 ceratite
 Ceratitida - Ceratitidae
Lardaroceras pseudohungaricum Balini 1992 ceratite
Parakellnerites aff. hungaricus Mojsisovics 1882 ceratite
Reitziites reitzi Boeckh 1875 ceratite
Includes 2 morph cholnokyi
Reitziites ecarinatus Hauer 1896 ceratite
? Megaceratites cf. subnodosus von Mojsisovics 1882 ceratite
Epikellnerites vaszolyensis Vörös 2018 ceratite
Parahungarites arthaberi Diener 1899 ceratite