Where: Asturias, Spain (43.5° N, 5.3° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 33.5° N, 17.4° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Santa Mera Member (Rodiles Formation), Tenuicostatum (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• Protogrammoceras paltum subzone

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•In the coast outcrops, almost all of the levels have a remarkable lateral continuity and can be recognized in the whole studied area, between Gijón and Ribadesella.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. García Joral and A. Goy. 2009. Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) brachiopods in Asturias (northern Spain): stratigraphic distribution, critical events and palaeobiogeography. Geobios 42:255-264 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/A. Kocsis]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 110356: authorized by József Pálfy, entered by Adam Kocsis on 07.06.2011

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