Castell de Tavertet section, Vic area (Eocene of Spain)

Where: Spain (42.0° N, 2.5° E: paleocoordinates 38.8° N, 0.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Coll de Malla Marl Formation, Lutetian (47.8 - 41.3 Ma)

• Chronostratigraphic Unit: Middle and Late Lutetian.

•Biostratigraphic Unit: SBZ 15 and SBZ 16.

•Unconformity-Bounded Units: 3rd and 4th Lutetian Cycles.

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; cherty/siliceous sandstone

• bioclastic sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: J. Serra-Kiel, E. Mató, E. Saula, A. Travé, C. Ferràndez-Canadell, P. Busquets, J. M. Samsó, J. Tosquella, A. A. Barnolas, G. Pérez, J. Franquès and J. Romero. 2003. An inventory of the marine and transitional Middle/Upper Eocene deposits of the Southeastern Pyrenean Foreland Basin (NE Spain). Geologica Acta 1(2):201-229 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 165187: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 14.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Echinoidea
 Arbacioida - Arbaciidae
Coelopleurus sp. sea urchin
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Ditremaster covazii heart urchin
 Spatangoida - Brissidae
Eupatagus sp. Agassiz 1847 heart urchin
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Callichiridae
"Callianassa fraasi" = Glypturus fraasi
"Callianassa fraasi" = Glypturus fraasi Noetling 1885 decapod
 Decapoda - Callianassidae
Callianassa pseudonilotica, "Ctenocheles cf. burlesonensis" = Callianassa burlesonensis
Callianassa pseudonilotica Lorenthey 1929 decapod
"Ctenocheles cf. burlesonensis" = Callianassa burlesonensis Stenzel 1935 decapod
 Decapoda - Ctenochelidae
Ctenocheles cultellus Rathbun 1935 decapod
 Decapoda - Diogenidae
Eocalcinus eocenicus Via 1959 hermit crab
 Decapoda - Portunidae
Colneptunus hungaricus Lörenthey 1898 swimming crab
 Decapoda - Montezumellidae
Montezumella amenosi Via 1959 crab
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
"Modiola sp." = Modiolus
"Modiola sp." = Modiolus Lamarck 1801 mussel
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop
 Ostreida - Malleidae
Vulsella sp. Ršding 1798 oyster
 Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita sp. Bruguière 1792 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya sp. Sowerby 1823 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Venus sp. Linnaeus 1758 venus clam
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail
 Neogastropoda - Olividae
Ancilla sp. Lamarck 1799 olive snail
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Volutilithes sp. Swainson 1829 volute
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Sigmesalia sp. Finlay and Marwick 1937 turret shell
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
Scalaria sp. Lamarck 1801 wentletrap
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Clanculus sp. Monfort 1810 top snail
 Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
Architectonica (Solarium) sp. Röding 1798 sundial
Foraminifera
 Nummulitacea - Nummulitidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Soritidae
 Miliolida - Fabulariidae
 Miliolida - Alveolinidae
 Miliolida - Hauerinidae
 Ichnofossils -
Thalassinoides sp. Ehrenberg 1944
Ophiomorpha sp. Lundgren 1891