Where: Spain (38.1° N, 1.9° W: paleocoordinates 29.8° N, 6.2° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Miravetes Formation, Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)
• T. alpillensis ammonite subzone, P. fenestrata nannofossil subzone, Calpionellopsis calpionellid zone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified limestone and lithified marl
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: R. Aguado, M. Company, and J. M. Tavera. 2000. The Berriasian/Valanginian boundary in the Mediterranean region: new data from the Caravaca and Cehegin sections, SE Spain. Cretaceous Research 21:1-21 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 64966: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Coccolithophyceae | |
Rucinolithus wisei Thierstein 1971 | |
Tubodiscus verenae Thierstein 1973
Tubodiscus jurapelagicus Worsley 1971 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Spiticeras ex gr. multiforme Djanelidze 1922 ammonite | |
Fauriella boissieri Pictet 1867 ammonite
Berriasella calisto d'Orbigny 1850 ammonite
Kilianella ex gr. chamalocensis ammonite |