San Miguel de Aguayo, Bed 4 (Jurassic of Spain)

Where: Cantabria, Spain (43.1° N, 4.1° W: paleocoordinates 31.5° N, 7.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Limestone Member (Camino Formation), Spinatum (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope or ramp reef; lithified limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: Repository: Department of Geodynamics, Stratigraphy and Palaeontology (GEODESPAL), Complutense University, Madrid, Spain

Primary reference: R. W. Salazar-Ramírez, C. Herrero, and A. Goy. 2020. Lower Toarcian ammonite and foraminifera assemblages in the San Miguel de Aguayo Section (Basque-Cantabrian Basin, Spain). Journal of Iberian Geology 46:39-60 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 222233: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 20.09.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Liparoceratidae
Pleuroceras spinatum Bruguière 1789 ammonite
Pleuroceras cf. apyrenum Buckman 1911 ammonite
Amaltheus cf. margaritatus de Montford 1808 ammonite