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
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 | |
Coelopleurus sp. sea urchin | |
Ditremaster covazii heart urchin | |
Eupatagus sp. Agassiz 1847 heart urchin | |
Malacostraca | |
"Callianassa fraasi" = Glypturus fraasi
"Callianassa fraasi" = Glypturus fraasi Noetling 1885 decapod | |
Callianassa pseudonilotica, "Ctenocheles cf. burlesonensis" = Callianassa burlesonensis
Callianassa pseudonilotica Lorenthey 1929 decapod
"Ctenocheles cf. burlesonensis" = Callianassa burlesonensis Stenzel 1935 decapod | |
Ctenocheles cultellus Rathbun 1935 decapod | |
Eocalcinus eocenicus Via 1959 hermit crab | |
Colneptunus hungaricus Lörenthey 1898 swimming crab | |
Montezumella amenosi Via 1959 crab | |
Bivalvia | |
"Modiola sp." = Modiolus
"Modiola sp." = Modiolus Lamarck 1801 mussel | |
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop | |
Vulsella sp. Ršding 1798 oyster | |
Cardita sp. Bruguière 1792 clam | |
Pholadomya sp. Sowerby 1823 clam | |
Meretrix ex gr. incrassata venus clam
Venus sp. Linnaeus 1758 venus clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Natica sp. Scopoli 1777 moon snail | |
Ancilla sp. Lamarck 1799 olive snail | |
Volutilithes sp. Swainson 1829 volute | |
Sigmesalia sp. Finlay and Marwick 1937 turret shell
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Scalaria sp. Lamarck 1801 wentletrap | |
Clanculus sp. Monfort 1810 top snail | |
Architectonica (Solarium) sp. Röding 1798 sundial | |
Foraminifera | |
Tubothalamea | |
Thalassinoides sp. Ehrenberg 1944
Ophiomorpha sp. Lundgren 1891 |