Zirc, Northern Bakony Mountains (Cretaceous of Hungary)

Also known as Reef 1286

Where: Hungary (47.3° N, 17.9° E: paleocoordinates 27.5° N, 20.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Zirc Limestone Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• small reefs and bouquets of Agriopleura-Toucasia-Eoradiolites

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Czabalay. 1985. Die paläoökologische, biostratigraphische und paläogeographische Auswertung der Mollusken-Fauna der Zirc-Kalk-Formation [Paleoecological, biostratigraphic and paleogeographic analysis of the mollusc fauna of the Zirc Limestone Formation]. Schriftenreihe der Erdwissenschaftlichen Kommissionen, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 7:119-147 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 74890: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.09.2007

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
 Heterostropha - Nerineidae
 Heterostropha - Nerinellidae
 Heterostrophia -
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
"Pectunculus sublaevis" = Glycymeris geinitzii
"Pectunculus sublaevis" = Glycymeris geinitzii Orbigny 1850 clam
 Arcida - Limopsidae
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Neithea stefanoi, "Neithea quadricostata" = Neithea regularis
"Neithea quadricostata" = Neithea regularis Schlotheim 1813 scallop
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Rhynchostreon columbum" = Rhynchostreon mermeti, Exogyra cf. pellicoi
"Rhynchostreon columbum" = Rhynchostreon mermeti Coquand 1862 oyster
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
 Hippuritida - Requieniidae
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae