ammonites
Topalu 4, Dobrogea, Romania (Jurassic of Romania)

Also known as Reef 3293

Where: Romania (44.6° N, 28.0° E: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 34.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

• 10 m thick 20 m wide reef body

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, peel or thin section,

• Focus on corals (Roniewicz, 1976)

Primary reference: E. Roniewicz. 1976. Les scléractiniaires du Jurassique supérieur de la Dobrogea centrale, Roumanie. Palaeontologia Polonica 34:17-121 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35201: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 18.11.2003, edited by Uta Merkel