Reşiţa–Moldova Nouă zone, Minisului Valley, between Bozovici and Anina (Cretaceous to of Romania)

Where: Romania (45.0° N, 21.9° E: paleocoordinates 24.6° N, 26.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Valea Minusului Formation, Late/Upper Barremian to Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• Middle Aptian (Gargasian)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone and marl

• bioclastic and organogenic limestones interlayered with marls

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: B. Kołodziej and I. I. Bucur. 2020. An Early Cretaceous mesophotic coral ecosystem built by platy corals (middle Aptian, Southern Carpathians, Romania). Cretaceous Research [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 221641: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 18.08.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Demospongiae
 Axinellida - Cladocoropsidae
"Cladocoropsis cretacica" = Sarmentofascis cretacica
"Cladocoropsis cretacica" = Sarmentofascis cretacica Turnsek 1968 demosponge
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Requieniidae
Gastropoda
 Archaeogastropoda -
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae
"Terebratula sella" = Sellithyris sella
"Terebratula sella" = Sellithyris sella Sowerby 1823
Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Toxasteridae
Heteraster oblongus Brogniart 1821 heart urchin
 Salenioida - Saleniidae
Florideophyceae
 Sporolithales - Corallinophycidae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Polystrata alba Pfender 1936
Rhodophyceae
  - Gymnocodiaceae
Foraminifera
 Involutinina - Involutinidae
 Orbitolinacea - Orbitolinidae
  -
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Codiaceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales -
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
 Dasycladales - Triploporellaceae
 Dasycladales -
Falsolikanella
  -
Falsolikanella danilovae
  -
Falsolikanella danilovae Radoicic and Barattolo 1978
Montseciella arabica
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