Section Y.Mv - Bed 276, Cortijo de Miravetes, Rio Argos, Caravaca, Murcia (Cretaceous of Spain)

Where: Spain (38.1° N, 1.9° W: paleocoordinates 29.4° N, 6.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Miravetes Formation, Valanginian (139.8 - 132.9 Ma)

• Th. pertransiens ammonite subzone, P. fenestrata nannofossil subzone, Calpionellites calpionellid zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified limestone and lithified marl

• rhythmic alternation of marly limestone beds (5-70 cm thick) and marly interbeds (varying between a few cm and several m thick)

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 65018: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

Coccolithophyceae
 Braarudosphaerales - Polycyclolithaceae
Rucinolithus wisei Thierstein 1971
Protozoa
 Calpionellida -
Polyhymenophora
 Spirotrichia -
Tintinnopsella carpathica
listed as Tintinopsella
Tintinnopsella longa
listed as Tintinopsella
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Thurmanniceras pertransiens Sayn 1907 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Protancyloceratidae
Protancyloceras sp. Spath 1924 ammonoid
 Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae