Sta. Cecilia, Vic area, La Guixa Member, Ebro Basin, Catalonia (Eocene of Spain)

Where: Spain (42.0° N, 2.2° E: paleocoordinates 40.2° N, 1.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: La Guixa Member (Vic Marls Formation), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• second Bartonian cycle, transgressive phase

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified marl

• small sponge mounds, only some storm beds, a deeper setting of Vic area; outer shelf boundary

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Pisera and P. Busquets. 2002. Eocene siliceous sponges from the Ebro Basin (Catalonia, Spain). GĂ©obios 35(3):321-346 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61247: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.06.2006, edited by Mihaela Krause

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
 Protomonaxonida - Sollasellidae
? Opetionella sp. Zittel 1878 demosponge
 Haplosclerida - Petrosiidae
Propetrosia pristina n. gen. n. sp.
Propetrosia pristina n. gen. n. sp. demosponge
Hexactinellida
 Hexactinosa - Cribrospongiidae
Guettardiscyphia sp. Fromentel 1860 glass sponge
Guettardiscyphia thiolati Archiac 1846 glass sponge
 Hexactinosa -
Laocaetis sp. Pomel 1872 glass sponge
 Hexactinosa - Tretodictyidae
Hexactinella informis n. sp. glass sponge
 Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae
Pleuroguettardia iberica n. sp. glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Ventriculitidae
"Rhizocheton robustus" = Rhizopoterion
"Rhizocheton robustus" = Rhizopoterion glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Callodictyonidae
Plocoscyphia sp. Reuss 1846 glass sponge
Callicylix eocenicus Pisera and Busquets 2002 glass sponge