A fish fauna from the lowermost Bartonian of the Transylvanian Basin, Romania
Journal: Palaeontologia Electronica
Year: 2019

A fish fauna newly discovered in the middle Eocene marine sediments cropping out near the village of Luna de Sus, Romania, completes the fossil record of the Eastern European region. Teeth belonging to 15 species of Chondrichthyes and two species of Actinopterygii are herein recorded from the lowermost Bartonian deposits. These Paleogene fish document a marine tropical environment of medium deep waters in the northwestern area of the Transylvanian Basin. The vertical distributions of extant equi