El Pouet (40.3 m): Late/Upper Barremian, Spain
collected 1980
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet.
Cuvier 1795
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Geography
| Country: | Spain | State/province: | Valenciana | County: | Castellón |
| Coordinates: | 40.6° North, 0.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 30.4° North, 9.8° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Altitude: | 920 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Barremian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 2 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Barremian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 125.77000 - 121.40000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Arcillas de Morella | ||||
| Local section: | El Pouet | Local bed: | 40.3 m | ||
| Local order: | top to bottom | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "lower Bedoulian", bed located 40.3 m from top of section; orig. "Capas Rojas de Morella"
Villanueva-Amadoz et al. 2015: A Barremian age for this formation is established by its position below the Barremian – Aptian boundary, recently located based on ammonoids in the overlying Forcall Formation from the same sub-basin. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray wackestone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "zoogenic-micritic limestones of gray color" | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis | Collection dates: | 1980s |
Metadata
| Database number: | 45160 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-10-08 11:08:45 | Last modified: | 2022-02-28 08:39:01 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-10-08 11:08:45 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 11753. | ETE | J. V. Santafé, M. L. Casanovas, J. L. Sanz and Y. S. Calzada. 1982. Geologia y Paleontologia (Dinosaurios) de las Capas rojas de Morella (Castellón, España) [Geology and paleontology (Dinosauria) of the Capas Rojas of Morella (Castellón, Spain)]. Diputación Provincial de Castellón y Diputación de Barcelona 1-169 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 79237 | U. Villanueva-Amadoz, C. Santisteban, and A. Santos-Cubedo. 2015. Age determination of the Arcillas de Morella Formation (Maestrazgo Basin, Spain). Historical Biology 27(3–4):389-387 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham] |