Where: Spain (42.9° N, 2.2° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 1.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Puerto de Olazagutia Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; poorly lithified, sandy marl
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: replaced with calcite
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
Primary reference: H. W. Rasmussen. 1951. Cretaceous Ophiuroidea from Germany, Sweden, Spain and New Jersey. Saertryk af Meddelelser fra Dansk Geologisk Forening 12:48-56 [L. Villier/J. Millet]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 59070: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Julien Millet on 09.03.2006, edited by Loic Villier
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Ophiuroidea | |
"? Amphiura senonensis" = Ophiocoma senonensis
"? Amphiura senonensis" = Ophiocoma senonensis Valette 1914 brittle star | |
? Ophiura serrata Roemer 1841 brittle star | |
"? Ophiura hagenowi" = Stegophiura hagenowi
"? Ophiura hagenowi" = Stegophiura hagenowi Rasmussen 1950 brittle star |