Magura Hill, sixth sandstone layer (Cretaceous of Romania)

Where: Alba, Romania (46.8° N, 22.3° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 27.0° N, 30.1° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Sasaran, S. Oezer, and E. Sasaran. 2013. Description of Pseudosabinia klinghardti and some species of Pseudopolyconites (rudist bivalves) from the Late Cretaceous shallow-marine deposits from the Rosia Basin, Apuseni Mountains, Romania: Systematic palaeontology, biostratigraphy, and palaeobiogeography. Cretaceous Research 43:59-69 [W. Kiessling/A. Lauchstedt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 161234: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Andreas Lauchstedt on 03.09.2014

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
Hippuritella lapeirousei Goldfuss 1840 rudist
Vaccinites archiaci Munier-Chalmas 1892 rudist
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae