Somes Dam: Priabonian, Romania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Crocodylia indet. (Owen 1842)
Codrea and Venczel 2020
teeth
Actinopteri - Tetraodontiformes - Diodontidae
Chilomycterus hilgendorfi (Dames 1883)
original and current combination Progymnodon hilgendorfi
Actinopteri - Labriformes - Labridae
Lachnolaimus multidens (Munster 1846)
see common names

Geography
Country:Romania
Coordinates: 46.8° North, 23.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:42.3° North, 20.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Priabonian
Age range of interval:37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Turea Formation:Cluj Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Someș Dam
Database number:186845
Authorizer:M. Uhen, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Uhen, P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2017-07-05 17:15:01 Last modified:2021-07-09 03:13:28
Access level:the public Released:2017-07-05 17:15:01
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
62655. 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]

Secondary references:

77338 V. A. Codrea and M. A. Venczel. 2020. The fossil record of Palaeogene crocodilians in Romania: preliminary data. Nymphaea, Folia Naturae Bihariae 46-47:67-82 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]