Where: Santander, Spain (42.9° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 2.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Cabo de Lata Formation, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)
• Strongly affected by strike slip faulting
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: cast
Reposited in the BMNH
• Echinodids only, collected from Casas de Oraien of the Navarra collection
Primary reference: A. B. Smith, J. GallemÃ, C. H. Jeffery, G. Ernst, and P. D. Ward. 1999. Late Cretaceous-early Tertiary echinoids from northern Spain: implications for the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London (Geology) 55(2):81-137 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 157015: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Shaun Mahmood on 04.06.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Echinoidea | |
"Adelopneustes ernsri n. sp." = Galerites
"Adelopneustes ernsri n. sp." = Galerites sea urchin | |
Echinocorys scutata Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Hemiaster stella Morton 1830 heart urchin | |
Micraster tercensis heart urchin |