Mexilhoeira, Cascais area, level 9c (Cretaceous of Portugal)

Where: Portugal (38.7° N, 9.4° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 0.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• 1 m

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, yellow limestone

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. Rey. 1972. Recherches géologiques sur le Crétacé inférieur de l'Estremadura (Portugal). Serviços Geologicos de Portugal 21:1-477 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 65676: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 24.09.2006, edited by Austin Hendy

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida -
"Nautilitaceae indet." = Nautiloidea
"Nautilitaceae indet." = Nautiloidea de Blainville 1825
 Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
"Crioceratites ex gr. duvali" = Crioceratites duvalii
"Crioceratites ex gr. duvali" = Crioceratites duvalii Léveillé 1837 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
""Neocomites" ex gr. nodosoplicatus" = Lyticoceras nodosoplicatum
""Neocomites" ex gr. nodosoplicatus" = Lyticoceras nodosoplicatum Kilian and Reboul 1915 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras aff. juilleti d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Holcodiscidae
Spitidiscus cf. rotula Sowerby 1827 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Haploceratidae
"Neolissoceras grasi" = Neolissoceras grasianum
"Neolissoceras grasi" = Neolissoceras grasianum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
Olcostephanus sp. Neumayr 1875 ammonite
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phylloceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite