Vic area, Vic Marls Formation, Ebro Basin, Catalonia (Eocene of Spain)

Where: Spain (41.9° N, 2.3° E: paleocoordinates 40.2° N, 1.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Vic Marls Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• second Bartonian cycle, transgressive phase; exact stratigraphical position unknown

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified marl

• outer shelf boundary

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: specimens from the Museu Geologic del Seminari, Barcelona (MGSB)

Primary reference: A. Pisera and P. Busquets. 2002. Eocene siliceous sponges from the Ebro Basin (Catalonia, Spain). GĂ©obios 35(3):321-346 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61248: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.06.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Hexactinellida
 Lychniscosa - Callodictyonidae
 Hexactinosa - Euretidae
Eurete clava n. sp.
Eurete clava n. sp. glass sponge