Tokod, Dorog Basin, Nummulites striatus Beds (Eocene of Hungary)

Where: Hungary (47.7° N, 18.7° E: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 16.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Eocene (48.6 - 37.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments and lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

Primary reference: A. Kecskemetine-Körmendy. 1964. A Dorog környeki Eocen biofacies-vizsgalata [Study of the biofacies in the Eocene of the Dorog region]. A Magyar Allami Földtani Intezet Evi Jelentese 329-337 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 78020: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 25.01.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Diastomatidae
Diastoma sp. Deshayes 1850 snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
 Cerithioidea - Batillariidae
Pyrazus sp. Monfort 1810 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop
Tubulostium
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 Life -
Brachydontes corrugatus
[entered as Brachyodontes corrugatus]