Alfara section (Bifrons zone/Toarcian) (Jurassic of Spain)

Where: Spain (40.9° N, 0.4° E: paleocoordinates 28.8° N, 12.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bifrons (182.0 - 175.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Museo Geologico del Seminario de Barcelona

Primary reference: S. Calzada. 1988. Nautílidos liasicos de los alrededores de Alfara (Tarragona, NE España). Acta Geologica Hispanica 23:303-309 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 171084: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 01.07.2015, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
Hildoceras bifrons Bruguiere 1792 ammonite
 Nautilida - Cenoceratidae
Cenoceras semistriatum d'Orbigny 1843 nautiloid
Cenoceras intermedium Sowerby 1816 nautiloid
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pseudopecten (Echinopecten) aff. barbatus" = Pecten barbatus
"Pseudopecten (Echinopecten) aff. barbatus" = Pecten barbatus Sowerby 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma aff. hesione D'Orbigny 1850 file clam
Pseudolimea duplicata Sowerby 1814 file clam
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
"Homeorhynchia batalleri" = Homoeorhynchia
"Homeorhynchia batalleri" = Homoeorhynchia
 Terebratulida - Lobothyrididae
"Lobothyris jauberti" = Telothyris jauberti
"Lobothyris jauberti" = Telothyris jauberti Deslongchamps 1863