Where: Spain (39.0° N, 0.4° W: paleocoordinates 29.1° N, 1.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bostrychoceras polyplocum ammonoid zone, II Member (Chaume Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• AGE: Late Campanian, on the basis of ammonoid biostratigraphy; Bostrychoceras polyplocum zone.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, argillaceous, sandy limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 67549: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.11.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Pachydiscus cf. oldhami Sharpe 1855 ammonite | |
Bostrychoceras cf. polyplocum Roemer 1841 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pycnodonta cf. proboscideum" = Pycnodonte, Pycnodonta vesicularis
"Pycnodonta cf. proboscideum" = Pycnodonte oyster
Pycnodonta vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster |