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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Coccolithophyceae | |
Rucinolithus wisei Thierstein 1971 | |
Protozoa | |
Calpionellopsis oblonga, Lorenziella hungarica, ? Calpionellites darderi, Praecalpionellites murgeanui
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Polyhymenophora | |
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Cephalopoda | |
Thurmanniceras pertransiens Sayn 1907 ammonite | |
Protancyloceras sp. Spath 1924 ammonoid | |
Olcostephanus drumensis ammonite |