Casa Alta (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Catalonia, Spain (41.3° N, 1.6° E: paleocoordinates 29.6° N, 11.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Lagneau-Herenger. 1962. Contribution a l'etude des spongiaires siliceux du Cretace inferieur. Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France 95:1-252 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 111535: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.06.2011

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Taxonomic list

Hexactinellida
 Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae
Craticularia stellata Lagneau-Herenger 1962 glass sponge
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Hoplitidae
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Trochus sp. Linnaeus 1758 top snail
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
Pleurotomaria sp. Defrance 1826 snail
 Euomphalina - Microdomatidae
"Turbo minutus" = Tunstallia helicina
"Turbo minutus" = Tunstallia helicina von Schlotheim 1820 snail
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Natica laevigata moon snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula placunea Lamarck 1819 scallop
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea conica Stoppani 1865 oyster
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
"Corbis corrugata" = Fimbria
"Corbis corrugata" = Fimbria clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
"Panopaea nana" = Panopea
"Panopaea nana" = Panopea clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Echinoidea
 Holasteroida - Holasteridae
 Spatangoida - Toxasteridae
Toxaster collegnoi heart urchin
 Irregularia - Nucleolitidae