Boteni, Boteni Formation, Arges (Miocene of Romania)

Where: Romania (45.2° N, 25.1° E: paleocoordinates 45.4° N, 24.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Boteni Formation, Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• Odessian (Lower Pontian)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified claystone and lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: V. Pavnotescu and I. Andreescu. 1978. Asupra unor Prosodacnine din Pontianul de la Boteni (jud. Arges) [Pontian Prosodacninae from Boteni (Arges Province)]. Studii si Cercetari de Geologie, Geofizica, Geografie; Seria Geologie 23(1):143-155 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 73300: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Viviparidae
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Dreissenidae
Dreissena sp. Beneden 1835 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Carditida - Lymnocardiidae
 Unionida - Unionidae
Unio sp. Philipsson 1788 freshwater mussel