Where: Spain (37.6° N, 1.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 1.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• Zanclean based on presence of Globorotalia puncticulata and Globigerinoides elongatus. Silts and yellow sands below 1 meter of fossiliferous sands.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. A. García Ramos. 2004. Braquiópodos Pliocenos de Águilas. Boletín de la Asociación Cultural Paleontológica Murciana 3:18-39 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 190906: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.12.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Terebratulina retusa Linnaeus 1758 | |
Maltaia pajaudi García Ramos 2006 | |
Megerlia eusticta Philippi 1836 | |
Megathiris detruncata Gmelin 1791 |