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)
•Beds listed: C1, 4, C2, C3, 14, 15, 24, C5, 26, 27, C6, 28, C7, 29, C8, 32, C9
• 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 202243: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 01.07.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Modiolus myoconchaeformis mussel | |
Costatoria goldfussi Alberti 1830 clam |