Sant Corneli anticline (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Catalunia, Spain (42.2° N, 1.9° E: paleocoordinates 31.0° N, 4.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Vicens, G. Lopez, and A. Obrador. 1998. Facies Succession, Biostratigraphy and Rudist Faunas of Coniacian to Santonian Platform Deposits in the Sant Cornelli Anticline (Southern Central Pyrenees). Geobios 31(22):403-427 [W. Kiessling/A. Lauchstedt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162692: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Andreas Lauchstedt on 02.10.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Muniericeratidae
Pseudoschloenbachia inconstans de Grossouvre 1894 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Placenticeratidae
Placenticeras polyopsis Dujardin 1837 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Requieniidae
 Hippuritida - Caprotinidae
Caprotinidae indet. Gray 1848 rudist
 Hippuritida - Plagioptychidae
"Plagioptychus paradoxus" = Plagioptychus aguilloni
"Plagioptychus paradoxus" = Plagioptychus aguilloni d'Orbigny 1840 rudist
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
 Hippuritida - Hippuritidae
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Cordiceramus bueltenensis" = Inoceramus (Cordiceramus) clam
"Cordiceramus cordiinitialis" = Inoceramus (Cordiceramus) clam
Platyceramus sp. Heinz 1932 clam
Platyceramus cycloides Wegner 1905 clam