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
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 | |
Demospongiae | |
"Cladocoropsis cretacica" = Sarmentofascis cretacica
"Cladocoropsis cretacica" = Sarmentofascis cretacica Turnsek 1968 demosponge | |
Bivalvia | |
Gastropoda | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Terebratula sella" = Sellithyris sella
"Terebratula sella" = Sellithyris sella Sowerby 1823 | |
Echinoidea | |
Heteraster oblongus Brogniart 1821 heart urchin | |
Salenia prestensis sea urchin | |
Florideophyceae | |
Polystrata alba Pfender 1936 | |
Rhodophyceae | |
Foraminifera | |
Ulvophyceae | |
Boueina hochstetteri Toula 1883
? Halimeda fluegeli Bucur 1994 | |
Chlorophyceae | |
Pseudoactinoporella fragilis Conrad 1970 | |
Kopetdagaria sphaerica Maslov 1960 | |
Falsolikanella | |
Falsolikanella danilovae | |
Falsolikanella danilovae Radoicic and Barattolo 1978 | |
Montseciella arabica | |
Montseciella arabica Henson 1948 |