Sample 11, section X.HA (Cortijo del Hielo) (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Granada, Spain (37.9° N, 2.6° W: paleocoordinates 28.7° N, 6.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• No lithostratigraphic unit names mentioned in text or figures. From Sarasani ammonite Biozone of the upper Barremian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marl

• Pelagic section in the External Zone of the Betic Cordillera of Spain.
• Lithology consists of rhymically alternating marly limestone beds 5 to 70cm thick, and marly interbeds up to several metres thick.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Detailed sampling was carried out by authors for this study. No repository is listed, but presumably specimens reside with the authors at either Escuela Universitaria or Universidad de Granada.

Primary reference: R. Aguado, M. Company, J. Sandoval and J.M. Taver. 1997. Biostratigraphic events at the Barremian/Aptian boundary in the Betic Cordillera, southern Spain. Cretaceous Research 18:309-329 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 50387: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.05.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive for ammonites, while some calcareous nannofossils are listed.
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Coccolithophyceae
 Braarudosphaerales - Polycyclolithaceae
Hayesites irregularis
Hayesites irregularis Thierstein et al. 1972
 Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae
Braarudosphaera cf. africana, Micrantholithus stellatus
 Podorhabdales - Cretarhabdaceae
Flabellites oblongus