Where: Valenciana, Spain (40.6° N, 0.1° W: paleocoordinates 30.1° N, 10.1° 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 43.4 m from top of section
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; sandy wackestone
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 45159: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.10.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Choffatella decipiens Schlumberger 1905 | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod |