Baia Mare Basin (Miocene of Romania)

Where: Romania (47.7° N, 23.6° E: paleocoordinates 47.1° N, 23.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Badenian (13.7 - 12.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Nicorici. 1975. Contribution a la connaissance des pectinides badeniennes de Roumanie [Badenian pectinids of Romania]. Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai, Geologia-Geographia 20:32-37 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 72248: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.05.2007

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys latissima scallop
subsp. nodosiformis
"Pecten subbenedictus" = Philippia (Oppenheimopecten) subbenedictus Fontannes 1878 scallop
"Chlamys multistriata" = Talochlamys multistriata Poli 1795 scallop
Pecten kochi scallop
Pecten aduncus Eichwald 1830 scallop