Barranco de la Masia MA8 (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: tenuicostatum zone, Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, bioturbated, shelly/skeletal lime mudstone

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 26325: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Danica Hempfling on 13.10.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Dimyidae
Atreta sp. Etallon 1862 scallop
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula (Harpax) spinosa Sowerby 1819 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
"Lima (Pseudolimea) cf. roemeri" = Limea (Pseudolimea) roemeri
"Lima (Pseudolimea) cf. roemeri" = Limea (Pseudolimea) roemeri Brauns 1871 file clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus Schlotheim 1813 scallop
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinnidae indet. Leach 1819 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
cf. Lithophaga (Lithophaga) sp. Röding 1798 mussel
Lycettia lunularis Lycett 1857 mussel
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pachymya (Arcomya) sp. Sowerby 1826 clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya aequistriata Agassiz 1845 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae