Where: Romania (46.6° N, 23.5° E: paleocoordinates 41.1° N, 20.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Capusu Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• Rusu 2004: The Gryphaea (=Sokolowia) eszterhazyi Beds are included in the Capusu Formation of Bartonian age.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, sandy marl and lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: N. Meszaros. 1957. Fauna de moluste a depozitelor Paleogene din nord-vestul Transilvaniei [Molluscan fauna from Paleogene deposits from NW Transilvania]. Biblioteca de Geologie si Paleontologie 1:1-174 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 101878: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.01.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Arachnida | |
Galeodes (Cornulina) mimax camel spider | |
Bivalvia | |
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Corbula (Bicorbula) gallica Lamarck 1801 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Hippochrenes cf. ampulus snail | |
"Galeodes (Pugilina) subcarinata" = Melongena
"Galeodes (Pugilina) subcarinata" = Melongena snail | |
"Turritella (Haustator) imbricataria" = Haustator imbricataria
"Turritella (Haustator) imbricataria" = Haustator imbricataria Lamarck 1804 turret shell | |
Potamides sp. Brongniart 1810 horn snail | |
Rhinoclavis (Aluco) striatus cerith snail |