Vălenii Șomcutei locality, MF4‑rhodolith rudstone (Miocene of Romania)
Where: Romania (47.5° N, 23.5° E: paleocoordinates 46.9° N, 23.1° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Badenian (13.7 - 12.7 Ma)
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; rudstone
• densely packed rhodolithic level of approximately 3 m in thickness, showing a gradual transition from coralline algal rudstone.The rhodoliths are dispersed in a bioclastic packstone/grainstone matrix
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. Chelaru, E. Săsăran, T. Tămaș, R. Bălc, I. I. Bucur and G. Pleș. 2019. Middle Miocene carbonate facies with rhodoliths from the NW Transylvanian Basin (Vălenii Șomcutei Cave, Romania). Facies 65(4) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 198873: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 16.01.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Bryozoa | |
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
| Polychaeta | |
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Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835 | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
| Florideophyceae | |
Spongites fruticulosus, Spongites "sp. 1", "Lithophyllum pustulatum" = Titanoderma pustulatum, "Lithophyllum duplex" = Titanoderma duplex, Lithophyllum incrustans, Peyssonnelia antiqua
Spongites "sp. 1" Kützing 1841
"Lithophyllum pustulatum" = Titanoderma pustulatum Lamouroux 1816
"Lithophyllum duplex" = Titanoderma duplex Pisera and Studencki 1989
Lithophyllum incrustans Philippi 1837
Peyssonnelia antiqua Johnson 1964 | |
Lithothamnion "sp. 1", Lithothamnion cf. minervae, Mesophyllum alternans, Mesophyllum cf. erubescens, Mesophyllum curtum
Lithothamnion "sp. 1" Heydrich 1897
Lithothamnion cf. minervae Basso 1995
Mesophyllum alternans Foslie 1907
Mesophyllum cf. erubescens Foslie 1900
Mesophyllum curtum Hrabovsky et al. 2016 | |
| Foraminifera | |
| Globothalamea | |
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Acervulinidae indet. Schultze 1854 | |
| Foraminifera | |
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Rotaliidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839 | |