El Canteret (14.3 m) (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Valenciana, Spain (40.6° N, 0.1° W: paleocoordinates 30.1° N, 10.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Capas Rojas Formation, Early/Lower Aptian (121.4 - 122.5 Ma)

• "lower Bedoulian"; bed located 14.3 m from top

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; ferruginous, yellow, calcareous sandstone

• "very fine-grained sandstones, with ferruginous ochre-colored calcareous cement, with frequent separated valves of ostreids (average size 1 cm) and some Astarte obovata...decreasing granulometry is observed in the vertical direction."

Size class: mesofossils

Collected in the 1980s

Primary reference: J. V. Santafé, M. L. Casanovas, J. L. Sanz and Y. S. Calzada. 1982. Geologia y Paleontologia (Dinosaurios) de las Capas rojas de Morella (Castellón, España) [Geology and paleontology (Dinosauria) of the Capas Rojas of Morella (Castellón, Spain)]. Diputación Provincial de Castellón y Diputación de Barcelona 1-169 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45156: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.10.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostreidae indet.
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte obovata
Astarte obovata Sowerby 1822 clam