Where: Murcia, Spain (37.7° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 2.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. Brimaud and D. Vachard. 1986. Les spongiaires siliceux du Tortonien des Betiques (Miocene de l'Espagne du Sud): especes nouvelles ou peu connues, I: Choristides et Lithistides [Tortonian siliceous sponges from the Betics (Miocene of southern Spain): new or little known species, I: Choristida and Lithistida]. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, C 8(3):293-341 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 116137: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 05.09.2011

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