Where: Spain (37.4° N, 6.7° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 7.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Niebla Calcarenite Formation, Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• The presence of Neogloboquadrina humerosa (Takyanagi & Saito) in the lower part of the Niebla Calcarenite suggests a late Tortonian age (Sierro et al. 1990a). The PF-Event 1 and 2 of Sierro et al. (1993), as well as the Tortonian/ Messinian boundary, were recognised in the overlying Gibraleón Formation at a different location; at Niebla the section immediately above the Calcarenita de Niebla is condensed and the successive Gibraleón Clays show a Messinian age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal packstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: B. Berning, P. Noissette, and C. Betzler. 2005. Late Miocene Bryozoa from the Guadalquivir Basin (SW Spain): eastern Atlantic and western Mediterranean environment and biogeography. In H. I. Moyano, J. M. Cancino, P. N. Wyse Jackson (eds.), Bryozoan Studies 2004 15-24 [L. Liow/F. Franeck/F. Franeck]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 178465: authorized by Lee Hsiang Liow, entered by Franziska Franeck on 03.05.2016, edited by Matthew Clapham

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