ammonites
Floresti (Eocene of Romania)

Where: Romania (46.7° N, 23.5° E: paleocoordinates 41.5° N, 20.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Valeni Member (Inucu Formation), Bartonian (40.4 - 37.2 Ma)

• "Orizontul calcarelor grosiere inferioare", probably Valeni Limestone at the top of the Inucu Formation (Rusu 2004)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

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 101872: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.01.2011