Lita de Sus (Eocene of Romania)

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

• inner shelf of an open sea, with a tidal regime
• sandy marls with bioclastic limestone and marlstone intercalations

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
 Solifugae -
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
 Cardiida - Trapezidae
Libitina alpina clam
var. subalpina
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula (Bicorbula) gallica Lamarck 1801 clam
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Rostellariidae
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
"Galeodes (Pugilina) subcarinata" = Melongena
"Galeodes (Pugilina) subcarinata" = Melongena snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella (Haustator) imbricataria" = Haustator imbricataria
"Turritella (Haustator) imbricataria" = Haustator imbricataria Lamarck 1804 turret shell
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
Potamides sp. Brongniart 1810 horn snail
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae