Pamantul Rosu hill, Delinesti (Miocene of Romania)

Where: Romania (45.4° N, 22.1° E: paleocoordinates 44.8° N, 21.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Badenian (13.7 - 12.7 Ma)

• 4 m thick level in the lower half of the marine complex

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; fine-grained, micaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Tita. 2000. Study on Miocene corals (Scleractinia) from Delinesti (Romania). Travaux du Museum National d'Histoire naturelle Grigore Antipa 42:373-382 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123135: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.01.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Globigerinoidea - Globigerinidae
Orbulina suturalis Bronnimann 1951
Florideophyceae
 Hapalidiales - Corallinophycidae
"Lithothamnium sp." = Lithothamnion
"Lithothamnium sp." = Lithothamnion Heydrich 1897
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
"Acanthocyathus transilvanicus" = Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) transilvanicus
"Acanthocyathus transilvanicus" = Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) transilvanicus Reuss 1871 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum roissyanum Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Balanophyllia sp. Wood 1844 stony coral
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella badensis turret shell
 Neogastropoda - Ancillariidae
"Ancilla glandiformis" = Amalda glandiformis
"Ancilla glandiformis" = Amalda glandiformis Lamarck 1810 snail
 Neogastropoda - Clavatulidae
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus ponderous cone shell
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
"Anadara diluvii" = Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii
"Anadara diluvii" = Scapharca (Scapharca) diluvii Lamarck 1805 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Venus multilamella" = Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella
"Venus multilamella" = Venus (Ventricoloidea) multilamella Lamarck 1818 venus clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Membraniporidae