Fortuna (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Spain (38.0° N, 1.0° W: paleocoordinates 28.8° N, 7.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; marl

• calcareomargosos intercalados en margas grises

Primary reference: S. Calzada. 1985. Braquiopodos del Hauteriviense de Fortuna (Prov. Murcia, Espana). Bolletino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 23:75-90 [F. Fursich/A. Tomasovych]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55528: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Adam Tomasovych on 31.10.2005

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
 Cidaroida - Rhabdocidaridae
 Calycina - Diplopodiidae
Pseudodiadema rotulare Agassiz 1836 sea urchin
unclassified
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Echinoidea
 Holasteroida - Holasteridae
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"Cidaris" alpina Zardini 1973 sea urchin
Crinoidea
 Cyrtocrinida - Phyllocrinidae
Phyllocrinus oosteri Loriol 1879 Sea lily
 Cyrtocrinida - Sclerocrinidae
Sclerocrinus strambergensis Jaekel 1891 Sea lily
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
Fortunella fortunae n. gen. n. sp. Calzada 1985
 Terebratulida - Aulacothyropsidae
Smirnovina smirnovae n. gen. n. sp.
Smirnovina smirnovae n. gen. n. sp.
 Terebratulida - Kingenidae
 Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae
 Terebratulida - Capillithyrididae
 Terebratulida - Nucleatidae
 Terebratulida - Pygopidae
Pygites diphyoides d'Orbigny 1849
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Haploceratidae
"Neolissoceras grasi" = Haploceras grasianum
"Neolissoceras grasi" = Haploceras grasianum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Holcodiscidae
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Neocomites (Teschenites) sp. Thieuloy 1971 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
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Lamellaptychus didayi ammonoid aptychus
 Belemnitida - Belemnitidae
 Belemnitida - Duvaliidae
Duvalia lata belemnite