Cabo de San Vicente, bed 496 (Choffat coll) (Jurassic of Portugal)

Where: Portugal (37.0° N, 9.0° W: paleocoordinates 27.8° N, 1.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ibex (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• Luridum zonule of Luridum subzone; uppermost part of Gemmellaroi zone of Mediterranean region. Upper part of bed 496.

Environment/lithology: lithified, cherty/siliceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P. Choffat in <1887

• Repository: Servicos Geologicos de Portugal

Primary reference: J. L. Dommergues, C. Meister, and R. B. Rocha. 2011. The Pliensbachian ammonites of the Algarve Basin (Portugal) and their palaeobiogeographical significance for the "Iberia-Newfoundland" conjugate margins. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 104:81-96 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 146443: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.06.2013

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Dactylioceratidae
Reynesocoeloceras elmii Dommergues et al. 2011 ammonite
cf. Aegoceras densinodum in Choffat, 1887; Metaderoceras sp. in Rocha, 1971, 1977