Cuatretonda, Torrella Formation, Member I, Valencia: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, Spain

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
Hippuritella cf. lapeirousei (Goldfuss 1840)
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Meandropsinidae
Nummofallotia cretacea
unclassified
Simplorbites gensacicus
Calcarinidae
Siderolites aff. calcitrapoides Lamarck 1801
Orbitoididae
Omphalocyclus primitifs
Orbitoides aff. apiculata Schlumberger 1901
Orbitoides media (d'Archiac 1837)
Lepitorbitoididae
Lepidorbitoides minor (Schlumberger 1901)
see common names

Geography
Country:Spain
Coordinates: 39.0° North, 0.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.1° North, 0.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Late/Upper Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Torrella Member:I
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandy "limestone"
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:67554
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate,micropaleontology
Created:2006-11-23 07:35:43 Last modified:2006-11-23 09:35:43
Access level:the public Released:2006-11-23 07:35:35
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
19246. J. Philip. 1983. Le Campanien et le Maastrichtien a rudistes et grands foraminifers de Quatretonda (Provence de Valence, Espagne): une clef pour la biozonation et les correlations stratigraphiques dans le domaine mesogeen. Geologie Mediterraneenne 10(3-4):87-98 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]