Ardanatz village, outcrop AD3.1, Ardanatz Sandstone Fm (Eocene of Spain)

Where: Spain (42.8° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 4.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ardanatz Sandstone Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; silty marl

• corals lived in shallower areas than sponges and that they were transported from shallower environments (by removal, reworking processes). there was a continuous facies transition from the most proximal Ardanatz delta-front facies into the most distal/marginal outer-platform to upper-slope Ilundain Marl facies.
• Silty marls

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: H. Astibia, J. Elorza, A. Pisera, G. Alvarez-Perez, A. Payros and S. Ortiz. 2013. Sponges and corals from the Middle Eocene (Bartonian) marly formations of the Pamplona Basin (Navarre, western Pyrenees): taphonomy, taxonomy, and paleoenvironments. Facies [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 141921: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 03.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Foraminifera
 Buliminoidea - Buliminidae
Buliminidae indet.
  - Spiroplectamminidae
Spiroplectammina alansis
Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Nodosariidae indet.
Nodosariidae indet. Ehrenberg 1838
 Nodosariida - Stilostomellidae
Stilostomellidae indet.
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Cancrisidae
Gyroidinoides spp.
Gyroidinoides spp. Reiss 1963
 Rotaliida - Discorbidae
Eponides navarroensis
 Rotaliida - Anomalinidae
Anomalinoides spp.
Anomalinoides spp. Brotzen 1942
 Rotaliida - Cibicididae
Cibicididae indet., Cibicidoides spp., Cibicides lobatulus, Cibicides refulgens
Cibicididae indet. Cushman 1927
Foraminifera
 Rotaliacea - Rotaliidae
Oridorsalis spp.
Oridorsalis spp. Anderson 1961
 Trochamminacea - Trochamminidae
Trochamminidae indet.
Trochamminidae indet. Schwager 1877
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Ammobaculites spp., Gaudryina abuillonensis
Ammobaculites spp. Cushman 1910
Hexactinellida
 Lychniscosa - Ventriculitidae
"cf. Rhizocheton robustus" = Rhizopoterion
"cf. Rhizocheton robustus" = Rhizopoterion glass sponge
 Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae
Laocoetis samueli, Pleuroguettardia iberica
Laocoetis samueli glass sponge
Pleuroguettardia iberica glass sponge
abundant specimens
 Hexactinosa - Cribrospongiidae
Guettardiscyphia thiolati
Guettardiscyphia thiolati Archiac 1846 glass sponge
abundant specimens