Where: Santander, Spain (43.5° N, 3.8° W: paleocoordinates 38.0° N, 4.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Cabo de Lata Formation, Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• Basal beds crossbedded calcarenites with manny hardgrounds and temporary hiatuses in sedimentation and were deposited during falling sea level,

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: cast

Reposited in the BMNH

• Echinodids only, collected from Site 10 of the Cabo Mayor collection

Primary reference: A. B. Smith, J. Gallemí, C. H. Jeffery, G. Ernst, and P. D. Ward. 1999. Late Cretaceous-early Tertiary echinoids from northern Spain: implications for the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London (Geology) 55(2):81-137 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157012: authorized by Melanie Hopkins, entered by Shaun Mahmood on 04.06.2014

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