Where: Alicante, Spain (38.4° N, 0.7° W: paleocoordinates 3.5° N, 12.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Muschelkalk Formation, Longobardian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)
• "Middle Triassic age, probably upper Ladinian" (López-Gómez et al. 1994)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; wackestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. López-Gómez, A. Márquez-Aliaga, F. Calvet, L. Márquez, and A. Arche. 1994. Aportaciones a la estratigrafía y paleontología del Triásico Medio de los alrededores de Agost, Alicante [Contribution to the stratigraphy and paleontology of the Middle Triassic in the proximities of Agost, Alicante]. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural (Sección Geología) 89:109-120 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 202223: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 01.07.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae | |
Chaetetida indet. Okulitch 1936 chaetetid sponge | |
Crinoidea | |
Pentacrinus sp. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
"Lyriomyophoria sublaevis" = Elegantinia
"Lyriomyophoria sublaevis" = Elegantinia clam | |
Bakevellia costata Schlotheim 1820 oyster | |
Limea sp. Bronn 1831 file clam | |
Modiolus myoconchaeformis mussel | |
"Enantiostreon difforme" = Terquemia difformis
"Enantiostreon difforme" = Terquemia difformis Schlotheim 1820 clam |