Where: Spain (37.9° N, 2.9° W: paleocoordinates 29.9° N, 5.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)
• Transversarium Zone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: F. Oloriz, M. Reolid, and F. J. Rodriguez-Tovar. 2003. A Late Jurassic carbonate ramp colonized by sponges and benthic microbial communities (External Prebetic, Southern Spain). Palaios 18:528-545 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 68308: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.01.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Tubothalamea | |
Nubeculariidae indet. Jones 1875 | |
Nodosariata | |
Bullopora sp. Quenstedt 1856 | |
Hexactinellida | |
"Sporadopyle sp." = Favispongia
"Sporadopyle sp." = Favispongia Quenstedt 1878 glass sponge | |
Pachyteichisma sp. Zittel 1877 glass sponge | |
Discophyma sp. Oppliger 1915 glass sponge | |
Cypellia sp. Pomel 1872 glass sponge | |
"Cribrospongia sp." = Cribrospongia, "Tremadictyon sp." = Cribrospongia
"Cribrospongia sp." = Cribrospongia d'Orbigny 1849 glass sponge
"Tremadictyon sp." = Cribrospongia d'Orbigny 1849 glass sponge | |
Stauroderma sp. Zittel 1877 glass sponge | |
Verrucocoelia sp. Etallon 1859 glass sponge | |
"Thyroidium sp." = Dictyonocoelia, Craticularia sp.
"Thyroidium sp." = Dictyonocoelia Etallon 1859 glass sponge
Craticularia sp. Zittel 1877 glass sponge | |
Demospongiae | |
Lithistida indet. demosponge | |
Hydrozoa | |
Tubiphytes sp. Maslov 1956 | |
Anthozoa | |
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral | |
Echinoidea | |
Holectypus sp. sea urchin | |
Collyrites sp. sea urchin | |
Plegiocidaris sp. Pomel 1883 pencil urchin | |
Polychaeta | |
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Lacunosella sp. Wisniewska 1932 | |
Monticlarella sp. Wisniewska 1932 | |
Placothyris sp. Westphal 1970 | |
Dictyothyris sp. Douville 1880 | |
Zittelina sp. Rollier 1919 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Enayites sp." = Passendorferia (Enayites), "Dichotomoceras sp." = Perisphinctes (Dichotomoceras)
"Enayites sp." = Passendorferia (Enayites) ammonite
"Dichotomoceras sp." = Perisphinctes (Dichotomoceras) ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Isoarca sp. Muenster 1842 clam | |
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop | |
Aequipecten sp. Fischer 1886 scallop
Spondylopecten sp. Röder 1882 scallop
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop | |
Pseudovola sp. Lissajous 1923 clam | |
Ceratomya sp. Sandberger 1864 clam | |
Procardia sp. Meek 1871 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail |