Csordakut Basin, Gerecse Mountains, bed 6 (Eocene of Hungary)

Where: Hungary (47.6° N, 18.4° E: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 16.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Eocene (48.6 - 37.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone and mudstone

• 5-6 m, light-eoloured, unstratified, nodular. Rieb in microfossils :

•foraminifer, ostracod and rare maerofossils: most of thcm are internal molluse casts

• "Alveolina" limestone. It is biernierite with mudstone, wackestone and packstone texture.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: P. Ozsvart. 1999. Middle Eocene foraminifer, mollusc and ostracod fauna from the Csordakut Basin (Gerecse Mountains, Hungary): palaeoenvironments recorded in a transgressive sequence. Annales Universitatis Scientiarum Budapestinensis, Sectio Geologica 32:73-135 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 171633: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 15.07.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Buliminoidea - Buliminidae
Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Nodosaria sp. Lamarck 1812
 Polymorphinida - Polymorphinidae
Globulina gibba d'Orbigny 1832
Guttulina irregularis d'Orbigny 1846
Pyrulina sp. d'Orbigny 1839
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Discorbidae
 Rotaliida - Cibicididae
Planulina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
 Rotaliida - Nonionidae
 Loftusiida - Acervulinidae
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
 Textulariina - Tritaxiidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Soritidae
 Miliolida - Peneroplidae
Spirolina sp. Lamarck 1804
 Miliolida - Alveolinidae
Fasciolites sp. Parkinson 1811
 Miliolida - Hauerinidae
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Foraminifera
 Asterigerinacea - Asterigerinidae
Asterigerina sp. d'Orbigny 1839
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
Strombus cf. tournoueri Bayan 1870 conch
 Neritoidea - Neritidae
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassatella sp. Lamarck 1799 clam
Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Cytherellidae
 Podocopida -
 Podocopida - Xestoleberididae
Xestoleberis gantensis Monostori 1977 ostracod
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
 Podocopida - Trachyleberididae
Asperrissimocythere perlucida Mehes 1936 ostracod
 Podocopida - Hemicytheridae
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
 Podocopida - Candonidae
 Podocopida -