Where: Portugal (39.0° N, 9.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 1.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Castanheira Member (Abadia Formation), Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. U. Schmid and W. Werner. 2005. Sobralispongia densespiculata, a new coralline sponge from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal. Geobios 38:653-666 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 114671: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.08.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Stromatoporoidea | |
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge | |
Pharetronida | |
Pharetronida indet. Zittel 1878 | |
Demospongiae | |
Sobralispongia densespiculata Schmid and Werner 2005 demosponge |