Santa Cruz Cliff, delta abandonment assemblage, Lisboa: Late Kimmeridgian, Portugal

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Hemicidaridae
unclassified
Orthostoma sp. Dumortier 1864
Gastropoda
sp. A
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Harpagodes sp. Gill 1870
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834
Gastropoda - Acteoninidae
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Cerithiidae indet. (Fleming 1822)
sp. A, B and E
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
sp. A and B
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
? Isocyprina sp. Röder 1882
Bivalvia
Heterodonta indet. Neumayr 1884
Bivalvia - Myida
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Malleidae
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
? Grammatodon sp. Meek and Hayden 1860
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Sabellida - Serpulidae
unclassified
see common names

Geography
Country:Portugal
Coordinates: 39.1° North, 9.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.2° North, 8.0° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5
Key time interval: Late Kimmeridgian
Age range of interval: 152.21 - 149.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified lime mudstone
Secondary lithology: lithified calcareous sandstone
Lithology description: shelly micrite and shelly calcareous sandstone
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:68237
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-01-10 04:10:29 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2007-01-10 04:10:18
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

19628. F. T. Fürsich. 1981. Salinity-controlled benthic associations from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal. Lethaia 14:203-223 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]