Fabares, Asturias, Fa-9 (Jurassic of Spain)

Where: Spain (43.4° N, 5.5° W: paleocoordinates 31.7° N, 3.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Solis Member (Gijon Formation), Planorbis (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)

• Placed in Jurassic but below occurrences of Psiloceras sp. and Caloceras pirondi, indicating early Hettangian age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• The carbonates of the Solís Member are organized in shallowing-upward sequences composed of a lower unit of subtidal carbonates (locally bioturbated) that occasionally contain bivalve-rich shell layers.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Material housed at the University of Valencia Geology Museum (MGUV), with the following collection numbers: MGUV 3705 to 3752 and 4359 to 4500.

Primary reference: A. Marquez-Aliaga, S. Damborenea, J.J. Gomez and A. Goy. 2010. Bivalves from the Triassic-Jurassic transition in northern Spain (Asturias and western Basque-Cantabrian Basin). Ameghiniana 47(2):185-205 [M. Aberhan/D. Wellmanns/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 114553: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Daniel Wellmanns on 16.08.2011, edited by Sabine Nürnberg

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
? Sphaeriola sp.
? Sphaeriola sp. Stoliczka 1871 clam
 Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
Pteromya cf. tatei
Pteromya cf. tatei Richardson and Tutcher 1916 clam