Puigcercos (Eocene of Spain)

Where: Spain (42.1° N, 0.9° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 0.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; muddy sandstone and mudstone

• Fossils were collected in intertidal and shallow subtidal muddy sandstones and mudstones of the Ager and Tremp-Graus basins and in the lower part of the Ilerdian stratotype section.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Dominici and Kowalke

• Repository at Museum of Natural History of the University of Florence, Italy. Additional studied material includes the Vidal collection hosted in the Museum of Natural History of Barcelona, Spain.

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Primary reference: S. Dominici and T. Kowalke. 2014. Early Eocene Cerithioidean gastropods of mangrove-fringed coasts (South-central Pyrenees, Spain). Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 53(3):137-162 [M. Clapham/V. Maciel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 184206: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Vanessa Maciel on 07.02.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Pachychilidae
Eginea almerae
Eginea almerae Vidal 1898 snail
 Cerithioidea - Thiaridae
Melanoides vidali
Melanoides vidali Cossmann 1898 snail
 Cerithioidea - Batillariidae
Vicinocerithium puigcercosensis
 Cerithioidea - Brachytrematidae
Benoistia vidali