ammonites
Savadisla (Eocene of Romania)

Where: Romania (46.7° N, 23.5° E: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 20.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Capusu Formation, Bartonian (40.4 - 37.2 Ma)

• Rusu 2004: The Gryphaea (=Sokolowia) eszterhazyi Beds are included in the Capusu Formation of Bartonian age.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, sandy marl and lithified limestone

• inner shelf of an open sea, with a tidal regime
• sandy marls with bioclastic limestone and marlstone intercalations

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: N. Meszaros. 1957. Fauna de moluste a depozitelor Paleogene din nord-vestul Transilvaniei [Molluscan fauna from Paleogene deposits from NW Transilvania]. Biblioteca de Geologie si Paleontologie 1:1-174 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 101813: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.01.2011