Casa Alta (Cretaceous of Spain)
Where: Catalonia, Spain (41.3° N, 1.6° E: paleocoordinates 29.6° N, 11.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: L. Lagneau-Herenger. 1962. Contribution a l'etude des spongiaires siliceux du Cretace inferieur. Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France 95:1-252 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 111535: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.06.2011
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Taxonomic list
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Echinoidea | |
Phyllobrissus kiliani sea urchin | |
Holaster aptiensis sea urchin | |
Toxaster collegnoi heart urchin | |
Cephalopoda | |
Hoplites (Desayesites) desayesi ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
"Turbo minutus" = Tunstallia helicina
"Turbo minutus" = Tunstallia helicina von Schlotheim 1820 snail | |
Cerithium verneuilli cerith snail | |
Natica laevigata moon snail | |
Pleurotomaria sp. Defrance 1826 snail | |
Trochus sp. Linnaeus 1758 top snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Panopaea nana" = Panopea
"Panopaea nana" = Panopea clam | |
Cardium cottaldinum cockle | |
"Corbis corrugata" = Fimbria
"Corbis corrugata" = Fimbria clam | |
Astarte elongata clam | |
Mytilus aequalus mussel | |
Plicatula placunea Lamarck 1819 scallop | |
Ostrea conica Stoppani 1865 oyster | |
Arca carinata ark | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Hexactinellida | |
Craticularia stellata Lagneau-Herenger 1962 glass sponge |