Barranco de la Canada C46 (Jurassic of Spain)

Where: Spain (40.0° N, 1.0° W: paleocoordinates 28.1° N, 9.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: serpentinum zone, Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, shelly/skeletal rudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. E. Gahr. 2002. Palökologie benthischer Faunen aus dem Unter-Toarc SW-Europas. [F. Fursich/D. Hempfling/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25616: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Danica Hempfling on 19.09.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Arcomytilus asper Sowerby 1818 mussel
 Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Parvamussium pumilum Lamarck 1819 mud scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus Schlotheim 1813 scallop
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna (Pinna) cf. folium Young and Bird 1822 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Cidaridae indet. Gray 1825 pencil urchin