Alto del Cuco, 150-186 (Cretaceous of Spain)

Also known as Cordiceramus muelleri/Boehmoceras arculus Zone

Where: Spain (43.4° N, 3.9° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 0.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Cordiceramus muelleri - Boehmoceras arculus inoceramid zone, Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; marl and limestone

• "Upper Cretaceous calcareous shelf deposits"
• "marl beds and nodular limestone"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: N. Schlüter, F. Wiese, M. Díaz-Isa, T. Püttmann, and I. Walaszczyk. 2023. Santonian (Late Cretaceous) echinoids from the Santander area (northern Cantabria, Spain). Cretaceous Research 147:105477 [W. Kiessling/A. Watson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 234958: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Alissa Watson on 24.05.2024

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
"Bolbaster micranthus" = Hemiaster (Bolbaster)
"Bolbaster micranthus" = Hemiaster (Bolbaster) heart urchin