San Vicente de la Barquera, Santander (Eocene of Spain)

Where: Spain (43.4° N, 4.4° W: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 7.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified grainstone

• ~70 m of whitish massive limestone (grainstone)and 20–30 m in thickness, made up of thick algal packstone beds intercalating thin marly beds

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J. Aguirre, J. C. Braga, and D. Bassi. 2011. Taxonomic assessment of coralline algal species (Rhodophyta; Corallinales and Sporolithales) described by Pfender, Lemoine, and Miranda from northern Spain type localities. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien (113)267-289 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 138288: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 09.01.2013, edited by J Fearon

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Taxonomic list

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Florideophyceae
  - Corallinophycidae
Arthrocardia mengaudii, Lithophyllum royoi, Lithophyllum quadrangulum, Hydrolithon lemoinei, "Lithophyllum mengaudi" = Mesophyllum mengaudii, "Mesophyllum mengaudii" = Mesophyllum mengaudii, "Lithothamnium cantabricum" = Lithothamnion
Lithophyllum royoi Miranda 1935
Hydrolithon lemoinei Miranda 1935
"Lithophyllum mengaudi" = Mesophyllum mengaudii Lemoine 1934
"Mesophyllum mengaudii" = Mesophyllum mengaudii Lemoine 1934
"Lithothamnium cantabricum" = Lithothamnion
Foraminifera
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Nummulitidae indet.
Nummulitidae indet. Blainville 1827
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Miliolidae
Miliolidae indet.
Miliolidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
 Miliolida - Alveolinidae
Alveolinidae indet.
Alveolinidae indet. Ehrenberg 1839
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Dasycladaceae indet.
Dasycladaceae indet. Kutzing 1843
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Halimedaceae
Halimedaceae indet.
unclassified
  -
Porifera indet.
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Anthozoa
 Hexacorallia -
Scleractinia indet.
Scleractinia indet. Bourne 1900 stony coral
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Zanthopsidae
"Xanthopsis dufouri" = Zanthopsis dufouri
"Xanthopsis dufouri" = Zanthopsis dufouri Milne-Edwards 1850 crab
 Decapoda - Xanthidae
Xanthopsis indet.
Xanthopsis indet. M'Coy 1849 stone crab
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Vermetidae
Vermetidae indet.
Vermetidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 worm shell