Nazaré (Cretaceous of Portugal)

Also known as Middle lower Turonian coarse bioclastic micaceous limestones of Nazaré (northern beach)

Where: Região do Centro, Portugal (39.6° N, 9.1° W: paleocoordinates 29.8° N, 6.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Middle lower Turonian coarse bioclastic micaceous limestones of Nazaré (northern beach)

Environment/lithology: platform or shelf-margin reef; lithified, calcareous limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Hannes Löser, Pedro M. Callapez

Primary reference: H. Löser and P. M. Callapez. 2022. Upper Cenomanian and lower Turonian (Cretaceous) corals from the Tethyan West Portuguese Carbonate Platform. Journal of Iberian Geology [P. Mannion/L. Jones]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 224529: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Lewis Jones on 14.03.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Hippuritida - Radiolitidae
Radiolites sp. Lamarck 1801 rudist
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Acteonellidae
"Actaeonella sp." = Acteonella
"Actaeonella sp." = Acteonella d'Orbigny 1843 snail
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Astraeofungia cenomana Orbigny 1850 stony coral
DCTUC CRET 5018
 Scleractinia - Actinacididae
Actinacis ? remesi Felix 1903 stony coral
DCTUC CRET 5016
 Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
? Barysmilia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 stony coral
DCTUC CRET 5002