Rio Argos (X.Ag1), Pseudothurmannia mortilleti subzone, Caravaca, Murcia (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Spain (38.1° N, 1.9° W: paleocoordinates 29.1° N, 6.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• uppermost Hauterivian; Pseudothurmannia ohmi zone, Pseudothurmannia mortilleti subzone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified marl and lithified limestone

• marls and limestones and marly limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. Company, J. Sandoval, and J. M. Tavera. 2003. Ammonite biostratigraphy of the uppermost Hauterivian in the Betic Cordillera (SE Spain). GĂ©obios 36(6):685-694 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61529: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.06.2006

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea - Hamulinidae
Anahamulina subcylindrica d'Orbigny 1850 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Ancyloceratidae
Acrioceras meriani Ooster 1860 ammonite
 Ammonitida -
 Ammonitida - Pulchelliidae
 Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
Pseudothurmannia mortilleti Pictet and de Loriol 1858 ammonite
Pseudothurmannia pseudomalbosi Sarasin and Schöndelmayer 1901 ammonite
Emericiceras thiollierei Astier 1851 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phyllopachyceras infundibulum d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite
"Phylloceras thetys" = Euphylloceras thetys d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite