Where: Spain (43.3° N, 2.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 3.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Morozovella velascoensis zone, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• Late Thanetian. Morozovella gracilis biozone.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; gray marl and limestone

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: L. Zili, D. Zaghbib-Turki, L. Alegret, I. Arenillas, and E. Molina. 2009. Foraminiferal turnover across the Paleocene/Eocene boundary at the Zumaya section, Spain: record of a bathyal gradual mass extinction. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 26(3):729-744 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 154089: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 26.01.2014

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